death's-head

English

Skulls and crossbones over the entrance to a cemetery.

Alternative forms

• death's head

Noun

death's-head (plural death's-heads)

1. A human skull, as symbol of death.

Translations

a human skull, as symbol of death

• Classical Nahuatl: miquiztli
• Czech: smrtihlav (cs) m
• Dutch: doodshoofd (nl) n, doodskop (nl) m
• French: tête de mort (fr) f
• German: Totenkopf (de) m
• Hungarian: halálfej (hu), koponya (hu)

• Russian: мёртвая голова (ru) (miortvaia golova)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мртвачка глава (sh) f

  Roman: mrtvačka glava (sh) f

• Swedish: dödskalle (sv) c

See also

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

• memento mori
• Jolly Roger
• skull and crossbones