death

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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.
3. (capitalized, countable, often, uncountable) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
4. (countable, uncountable) The collapse or end of something.
5. (countable, especially, figuratively, uncountable) The collapse or end of something.
6. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Spiritual lifelessness.

Synonyms

dying

decease

demise

end

🔚

end of life

destruction

doom

die

💀

accident

extinction

expiry

expiration

ruin

fatality

disaster

passing

ending

passing away

dead

💀

fate

mortality

destroyed

fall

last

grave

🪦

casualty

the last journey

finish

finis

sorrow

unhappiness

sickness

next world

skeleton

eternal sleep

exit

killing

misfortune

deadly

case of death

kill

🔪🩸👤

mortal

dissolution

disappearance

consummation

birth

dies

completion

funeral

close

Translations

mort

Tod

💀

muerte

💀

morte

💀

morte

💀

décès

💀

mort

💀

dood

💀

θάνατος

ölüm

💀

mors

💀

موت

overlijden

💀

Sterben

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɛθ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: deeth

Inherited from Old English: dēaþ

Cognate with Western Frisian: dead

Cognate with Dutch: dood

Cognate with German: Tod

Cognate with Swedish: död

Cognate with Norwegian: død

In summary

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.

Sentences

I hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me .

Scipione kept this office until his death .

He was sentenced to death for plotting to kill Pope Leo the Tenth .

In the months before his death , Hume , an alcoholic , had begun drinking again .

Savonarola visited Lorenzo on his death bed .

President Bush said that he and his wife Laura were saddened by Norwood's death .