death

English Online Dictionary. What means death‎? What does death mean?

English

Alternative forms

• deth (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English deeth, from Old English dēaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz (compare West Frisian dead, Dutch dood, German Tod, Swedish död, Norwegian død), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰówtus. More at die.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĕth, IPA^(key): /dɛθ/
• Rhymes: -ɛθ
• (West Country) IPA^(key): /diːθ/
• (Early Modern) IPA^(key): /dɛːθ/, /dɛθ/
• Homophones: debt (th-stopping); deaf (th-fronting)

Noun

death (countable and uncountable, plural deaths)

2. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
   1. Execution (in the judicial sense).
4. (often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
6. (preceded by the) The collapse or end of something.
   2. (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).

8. (figurative) Spiritual lifelessness.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:death

Derived terms

English terms starting with “death”

Translations

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References

Further reading

• The Definition of Death - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Anagrams

• Theda, hated

Japanese

Etymology

Appropriation of English death for a homophone.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) です [déꜜsù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [de̞sɨ̥]

Verb

death(デス) • (desu) 

1. (slang, humorous) Alternative spelling of です (desu)

Scots

Noun

death (plural deaths)

1. Alternative form of daith