death

See also: Death and deaþ

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/

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• Rhymes: -ɛθ
• (West Country) IPA^(key): /diːθ/
• Homophones: debt (with th-stopping), deaf (with 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.

   The death of my grandfather saddened the whole family.

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

     They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too. […].

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:

     "‘Death,’" quoted Warwick, with whose mood the undertaker's remarks were in tune, "‘is the penalty that all must pay for the crime of living.’"

   • 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:

     Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

   1. Execution (in the judicial sense).

      The serial killer was sentenced to death.

3. (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English dēaþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male θᾰ́νᾰτος (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics.

   When death walked in, a chill spread through the room.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 6:8:

     And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sat on him was Death"

   • 1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 51:

     but thoſe, Jonathan, who know what death is, and what havock and deſtruction he can make ,

   • 1974, Peter Gabriel, (Genesis), “Anyway”, in The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway:

     O boy! running man is out of death ... Anyway, they say she comes on a pale horse

4. (preceded by the) The collapse or end of something.

   England scored a goal at the death to even the score at one all.

   • 1983, Robert R. Faulkner, Music on Demand, page 90:

     He may even find himself being blamed if the project dies a quick and horrible death at the box office or is unceremoniously axed by the network.

   1. (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).

      This bake sale is going to be the death of me!

5. (figurative) Spiritual lifelessness.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:death

Derived terms

• accidental death
• anally inflicted death sentence
• angel of death
• article of death
• at death's door
• Black Death
• blue screen of death
• brain death
• catch one's death
• cause of death
• cell death
• cheat death
• civil death
• click of death
• clinical death
• cold as death
• common death adder
• corporate death penalty
• cot death
• crib death
• crude death rate
• culture of death
• dance of death
• dead
• deadly
• deadly diamond of death
• death acids
• death adder
• death against
• death angel
• death barrier
• death-bearing
• death-bed
• death bed
• death-bed conversion
• death bed conversion
• death bell
• death benefit
• deathbird
• deathblow, death blow
• death book
• death by a thousand cuts
• death by chocolate
• death by cop
• death by PowerPoint
• death camas
• death camp
• death cap
• death card
• death certificate
• death chair
• death chamber
• death clock
• death cross
• death cult
• death cultist
• death cup
• death-damp
• death-dealing
• death-defying
• death door
• death drive
• death duty
• death erection
• death factor
• death-fire
• death flight
• deathful
• death futures
• death glare
• death grip
• death growl
• death grunt
• death house
• death instinct
• death is the great leveller
• death knell
• death-knell
• deathless
• deathlike
• death loop
• deathlore
• deathly
• deathmaking
• death march
• death mask
• deathmatch
• death metal
• death metaller
• death-name
• death note
• death 'n' roll
• death of despair
• death of the author
• death on
• death panel
• death penalty
• death phase
• death play
• death pool
• death put
• death rate
• death rattle
• death-rattle
• death-ray
• death ray
• death ride
• death roll
• death row
• death seat
• death sentence
• death's-head
• death slide
• death slot
• deathsman
• death-sough
• death spiral
• death squad
• death star
• death stare
• death-stare
• death stick
• death-stiffness
• death-struggle
• death tax
• death threat
• death throe
• death to
• death toll
• deathtrap, death trap
• Death Valley
• deathward
• death warmed over
• death warmed up
• death warrant
• deathwatch
• death-watch beetle
• death whistle
• death wish
• deathy
• death zone
• dice with death
• die a death
• die a thousand deaths
• direct maternal death
• do to death
• dowry death
• drink oneself to death
• ego death
• Euro death-knot
• fan death
• feel like death
• fight to the death
• first death
• gay death
• group of death
• heat death
• heat death of the universe
• in at the death
• indirect maternal death
• information-theoretic death
• instadeath
• in the article of death
• jaws of death
• kill-death ratio
• kill-to-death ratio
• Kimberley death adder
• kiss of death
• language death
• laughing death
• lesbian bed death
• life after death
• life-and-death
• life-or-death
• like death warmed over
• like death warmed up
• like grim death
• living death
• manner of death
• maternal death
• matter of life and death
• matter of life or death
• mechanism of death
• megadeath
• melodic death metal
• Mongolian death worm
• near-death
• near-death experience
• pool of death
• pro-death
• programmed cell death
• psychic death
• purple death
• put to death
• red ring of death
• scared to death
• scare someone to death
• screen death
• screen of death
• second death
• sickness unto death
• sign one's death warrant
• sign one's own death warrant
• simultaneous death
• smiling death
• social death
• sudden arrhythmic death syndrome
• sudden death
• sudden infant death syndrome
• sudden sniffing death syndrome
• sudden unexpected death syndrome
• sudden unexplained death syndrome
• sure as death
• table of death
• till death do us part
• till death us do part
• to death
• to the death
• unlawful death
• valley of death
• valley of the shadow of death
• voodoo death
• wall of death
• wheel of death
• wrongful death
• wrongful death statute
• yes to death
• zip of death

 

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Translations

cessation of life

• Abkhaz: псра (pʼsra)
• Adyghe: лӏэныгъ (lˢʼɛnəğ)
• Afar: raba
• Afrikaans: dood (af)
• Ainu: ライ (rayi), ラヤㇺペ (rayampe)
• Albanian: vdekje (sq) f, mort (sq) m
• Amharic: ሞት (mot)
• Arabic: مَوْت‎ (ar) m (mawt), وَفَاة‎ f (wafāh)

  Egyptian Arabic: موت‎ m (mōt)

  Gulf Arabic: موت‎ m (mōt), وفاة‎ f (wafāt)

  South Levantine Arabic: موت‎ m (mōt)

• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܡܘܬܐ‎ m (mawtā)

  Jewish Aramaic: מוֹתָא‎ m (môṯā)

• Armenian: մահ (hy) (mah), վախճան (hy) (vaxčan)

  Old Armenian: մահ (mah)

• Aromanian: moarte
• Assamese: মৃত্যু (mriittu), মৰণ (moron)
• Asturian: muerte (ast) f
• Atong (India): thyiwami
• Avar: хвел (xʷel), хвей (xʷej)
• Aymara: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: ölüm (az), vəfat
• Bashkir: үлем (ülem), әжәл (äjäl)
• Basque: heriotza (eu)
• Belarusian: смерць f (smjercʹ), сьмерць f (sʹmjercʹ) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: মৃত্যু (bn) (mrittu), ইন্তেকাল (bn) (intekal), ওফাত (bn) (ōphat), মরণ (bn) (moron)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: tamttant f

• Bislama: ded
• Bole: moto
• Breton: marv (br) m
• Bulgarian: смърт (bg) f (smǎrt)
• Burmese: မရဏ (my) (ma.ra.na.), အသေ (my) (a.se), သေခြင်း (sehkrang:)
• Buryat: үхэл (üxel)
• Catalan: mort (ca) f
• Cebuano: kamatayon
• Central Sierra Miwok: ĉam-ŝy-
• Chagatai: اولوم‎ (ölüm), اولم‎ (ölim)
• Chechen: валар (valar), ӏожалла (ˀožalla)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏲᎱᎯᏍᏗ (ayohuhisdi)
• Chichewa: imfa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 死亡 (sei² mong⁴)

  Hakka: 死亡 (sí-mòng)

  Mandarin: 死亡 (zh) (sǐwáng)

  Min Nan: 死亡 (zh-min-nan) (sí-bông)

  Wu: 死亡 (sr vaan)

• Chuvash: вилӗм (vilĕm)
• Coptic: ⲙⲟⲩ (mou)
• Cornish: mernans m
• Crimean Tatar: ölüm, ecel
• Czech: smrt (cs) f
• Dalmatian: muart m
• Danish: død (da) c
• Dargwa: бебкӏа (bebḳa)
• Dhivehi: މަރު‎ (maru), ޥަފާތް‎ (wafāt̊)
• Dolgan: өлүү (ölüü)
• Dutch: dood (nl) m, overlijden (nl) n
• Eastern Mari: колымаш (kolymaš)
• Egyptian: (mwt f)
• Erzya: кулома (kuloma)
• Esperanto: morto (eo)
• Estonian: surm (et)
• Evenki: буни (buņi)
• Faroese: deyði m
• Finnish: kuolema (fi)
• French: mort (fr) f, décès (fr) m
• Friulian: muart f
• Gagauz: ölüm
• Galician: morte (gl) f, falecemento (gl) m, pasamento (gl) m
• Georgian: სიკვდილი (siḳvdili), გარდაცვალება (gardacvaleba), მიცვალება (micvaleba)
• German: Tod (de) m, Exitus (de) m (medical jargon)
• Gothic: 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌿𐍃 m (dauþus)
• Greek: θάνατος (el) m (thánatos)

  Ancient: θάνατος m (thánatos), θανή f (thanḗ), τελευτή f (teleutḗ) (polite)

• Guaraní: mano (gn), e'õ, ñemano
• Gujarati: મૃત્યુ (gu) (mṛtyu), મરણ (maraṇ)
• Haitian Creole: lanmò
• Hausa: mutuwa (ha)
• Hawaiian: make
• Hebrew: מוות \ מָוֶת‎ (he) m (mavet), מִיתָה‎ f (mitá)
• Hindi: मृत्यु (hi) m (mŕtyu), मरण (hi) m (maraṇ), मौत (hi) f (maut), मर्ग (hi) f (marg), मरना (hi) (marnā), विनाश (hi) m (vināś), मुर्दनी (hi) f (murdanī), मुर्दन m (murdan), अंत (hi) m (ant), इंतक़ाल m (intqāl), फ़ना f (fanā), कदन (hi) m (kadan), देहांत (hi) m (dehānt), शरीरांत (hi) m (śarīrānt), विदा (hi) f (vidā), कूच (hi) m (kūc), परलोकयात्रा f (parlokyātrā), प्रस्थान (hi) m (prasthān), अजल (hi) f (ajal), कजा (hi) f (kajā), वफात (hi) f (vaphāt)
• Hittite: 𒄭𒅔𒃷 n (ḫi-in-kán), 𒀝𒂵𒀀𒋻 n (ag-ga-a-tar)
• Hungarian: halál (hu), halálozás (hu), elhalálozás (hu), holta, elhunyta
• Hunsrik: Dod m
• Icelandic: dauði (is) m, andlát (is) n, fráfall n
• Ido: morto (io)
• Indonesian: mati (id)
• Interlingua: morte
• Irish: éag m, bás (ga) m
• Istriot: muorto
• Italian: morte (it) f, dipartita (it) f, decesso (it) m, morire (it) m
• Japanese: 死 (ja) (し, shi), 死亡 (ja) (しぼう, shibō)
• Javanese: pati (jv), kepatèn
• Kabardian: лӏэныгъэ (lˢʼɛnəğɛ)
• Kalmyk: үкл (ükl)
• Kannada: ಮರಣ (kn) (maraṇa)
• Karachay-Balkar: ёлюм (yolüm), ажал (ajal), аджал (acal)
• Karakalpak: o'lim
• Karelian: kuolema, kuolenda, kuolenta, šurma
• Kashubian: smierc f
• Kazakh: өлім (kk) (ölım), ажал (ajal), қаза (qaza), опат (opat)
• Khakas: ӧлім (ӧlìm)
• Khmer: សេចក្ដីស្លាប់ (sackdəy slap), កាលកិរិយា (km) (kaalkereyaa), អនិច្ចកម្ម (ʼaʼnɨccaʼkam), ការតាយ (kaa taay)
• Korean: 죽음 (ko) (jugeum), 사망(死亡) (ko) (samang)
• Kumyk: оьлюм (ölüm)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مەرگ‎ (ckb) (merg), وەفات‎ (ckb) (wefat)

  Northern Kurdish: mirin (ku) f, merg (ku) f, wefat (ku) f, mewt (ku) f, emrê Xwedê (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: өлүм (ky) (ölüm), ажал (ky) (ajal)
• Ladin: mort f
• Lao: ຄວາມຕາຍ (khuām tāi), ການຕາຍ (kān tāi), ມໍລະນະ (mǭ la na)
• Latgalian: nuove
• Latin: mors (la) f, nex (la) f, exitium n, quietus m, letum (la) n, finis (la) m or f, obitus m, funus (la) n
• Latvian: nāve f, miršana f
• Laz: ღურა (ğura)
• Lithuanian: mirtis (lt) f
• Lombard: mort (lmo)
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: dood (nds) m

  German Low German: Dood (nds) m

• Loxicha Zapotec: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Doud (lb)
• Macedonian: смрт (mk) f (smrt)
• Malay: kematian (ms)
• Malayalam: മരണം (ml) (maraṇaṃ)
• Maltese: mewt f
• Manx: baase m
• Maori: mate (mi), mate kiatu (death by violence), mate tara-ā-whare (death from natural causes), mate whawhati tata (sudden death), mate koeo (natural death), hautapu (by violence)
• Marathi: मरण (mr) n (maraṇ), मृत्यू (mr) m (mrutyū)
• Mingrelian: ღურა (ɣura)
• Mirandese: muorte f
• Moksha: кулома (kuloma)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: үхэл (mn) (üxel)

• Nahuatl: miquiztli (nah)
• Inuktitut: ᐋᔪᐃᓕᖅᑐᖅ (aayoiliqtoq), ᑐᖁᓂᖅ (iu) (toqoniq)
• Navajo: aniné, anoonééł
• Neapolitan: morte f
• Nepali: मृत्यु (mr̥tyu), मरण (maraṇ)
• Ngazidja Comorian: wafati, hufa, mauti class 9/10, mfo class 3, mfariki
• Nogai: оьлим (ölim)
• Norman: mort f, décès m
• Northern Sami: jápmin
• Northern Yukaghir: йабал (jabal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: død (no) m, dødsfall n, ende (no) m

  Nynorsk: daude m, dødsfall n

• Occitan: mort (oc) f, mòrt (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: съмрьть f (sŭmrĭtĭ)

• Old East Slavic: съмьрть f (sŭmĭrtĭ)
• Old English: dēaþ m
• Old French: mort f
• Old Norse: dauði m
• Old Prussian: gals
• Oriya: ମରଣ (or) (môrôṇô), ମୃତ୍ୟୁ (or) (mrutyu)
• Oromo: du'a
• Ossetian: мӕлӕт (mælæt)
• Ottoman Turkish: اولوم‎ (ölüm), موت‎ (mevt), مرگ‎ (merg)
• Pali: maraṇa
• Pashto: مرګ‎ m (marg)
• Persian: موت‎ (fa) (mowt), مرگ‎ (fa) (marg), وفات‎ (fa) (vafât), درگذشت‎ (fa) (dargozašt)
• Phoenician: 𐤌𐤅𐤕‎ (mwt)
• Piedmontese: mòrt f
• Polish: śmierć (pl) f, zgon (pl) m
• Portuguese: morte (pt) f, falecimento (pt), óbito (pt)
• Punjabi: ਮੌਤ (pa) (maut), ਜਮ m (jam)
• Purepecha: uarhikua
• Quechua: wañu
• Romanian: moarte (ro) f
• Russian: смерть (ru) f (smertʹ), ги́бель (ru) f (gíbelʹ), поги́бель (ru) f (pogíbelʹ), кончи́на (ru) f (končína)
• Rusyn: смерть f (smertʹ)
• Saho: raba
• Sanskrit: मृत्यु (sa) m (mṛtyú), मरण (sa) n (maraṇa), निर्वाण (sa) n (nirvāṇa), मार (sa) m (māra), मोक्ष (sa) m (mokṣa), अन्त (sa) m (anta), काल (sa) m (kāla), मृत (sa) m (mṛta), अभाव (sa) m (abhāva)
• Santali: ᱢᱳᱨᱳᱱ (moron)
• Sardinian: molte, morte, morti f
• Scots: daith
• Scottish Gaelic: bàs m, caochladh m, eug m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: смр̏т f, поги́бија f (in battle)

  Roman: smȑt (sh) f, pogíbija (sh) f (in battle)

• Shor: ӧлӱш (ölüş)
• Sicilian: morti (scn) f
• Silesian: śmiyrć f
• Sindhi: وَفاتِ‎ (vafāti)
• Sinhalese: මරණය (maraṇaya)
• Skolt Sami: jäämmʼmõš
• Slovak: smrť (sk) f
• Slovene: smrt (sl) f
• Somali: dhimasho
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: smjerś f

  Upper Sorbian: smjerć f

• Southern Altai: ӧлӱм (ölüm)
• Yucatec Maya: kíimili'
• Spanish: muerte (es) f
• Svan: დაგარ (dagar)
• Swahili: kifo (sw)
• Swedish: död (sv) c
• Tabasaran: аьжал (a̱žal)
• Tagalog: kamatayan
• Tajik: марг (tg) (marg), вафот (vafot)
• Tamil: மரணம் (ta) (maraṇam)
• Tatar: үлем (tt) (ülem), әҗәл (tt) (äcäl)
• Telugu: మరణము (te) (maraṇamu), చావు (te) (cāvu)
• Thai: ความตาย (th) (kwaam-dtaai), มรณะ (th) (mɔɔ-rá-ná)
• Tibetan: འཆི་བ ('chi ba)
• Tigrinya: ሞት (mot)
• Tocharian B: srukelle
• Tongan: mate
• Tupinambá: eõ
• Turkish: ölüm (tr), mevt (tr), memat (tr) (archaic), vefat (tr), irtihal (tr) (archaic)
• Turkmen: ölüm (tk), ajal (tk)
• Tuvan: өлүм (ölüm)
• Udmurt: кулон (kulon), кулэм (kulem)
• Ukrainian: смерть (uk) f (smertʹ)
• Umbundu: kalunga
• Urdu: موت‎ f (maut), مرگ‎ f (marg), مرت‎ m (mritu)
• Uyghur: ئۆلۈم‎ (ölüm)
• Uzbek: oʻlim (uz), ajal (uz), vafot (uz), mamot (uz)
• Venetian: morte f
• Vietnamese: (cái, sự) chết (vi), tử vong (vi)
• Volapük: deadam (vo)
• Walloon: moirt (wa) f
• Welsh: marwolaeth (cy) f, angau (cy) m, tranc m
• West Frisian: dea m
• Wolof: dee (wo)
• Xhosa: ukufa
• Yakut: өлүү (ölüü)
• Yiddish: טויט‎ m (toyt), מוות‎ m (moves), מיתה‎ f (mise)
• Yoruba: ikú
• Zhuang: daindangdumz, daindangndaek
• Zulu: ukufa

personification of death

• Basque: herio (eu)
• Breton: Ankoù (br) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死神 (zh) (sǐshén)

• Czech: smrtka (cs) f, smrt (cs)
• Danish: Døden
• Dutch: dood (nl) m
• Esperanto: Mortulo
• Estonian: surm (et), vikatimees
• Finnish: kuolema (fi)
• French: camarde (fr) f (poetic)
• Galician: morte (gl) f
• German: Tod (de) m
• Greek: Χάρος (el) m (Cháros)

  Ancient: Χάρων m (Khárōn)

• Hindi: मृत्यु (hi) (mŕtyu), यम (hi) m (yam)
• Irish: bás (ga)
• Italian: morte (it)
• Japanese: 死神 (ja) (しにがみ, shinigami)
• Korean: 사신(死神) (ko) (sasin), 저승사자 (jeoseungsaja)
• Latin: mors (la) f, letus m
• Latvian: nāve f
• Macedonian: смрт (mk) f (smrt)
• Norwegian:
  • Bokmål: Døden
  • Nynorsk: Dauden m
• Polish: śmierć (pl) f, kostucha (pl) f
• Portuguese: morte (pt) f
• Romanian: moartea (ro) f
• Russian: смерть (ru) f (smertʹ) (с косо́й), а́нгел сме́рти (ru) m (ángel smérti)
• Sanskrit: यम (sa) m (yama)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: смр̏т f

  Roman: smȑt (sh) f

• Slovene: smrt (sl) f
• Swahili: kifo (sw)
• Swedish: döden (sv) c
• Turkish: Erlik (mythological)
• Vietnamese: tử thần (vi) (死神), thần chết, cái chết
• Walloon: Fåtcheuse (wa) f
• Welsh: angau (cy) m

Tarot

• Catalan: la mort
• Czech: smrt (cs)
• Dutch: dood (nl)
• Estonian: surm (et)
• Finnish: kuolema (fi)
• French: la mort, l'arcane sans nom
• German: der Tod
• Greek: Θάνατος m (Thánatos)
• Hungarian: halál (hu), nagy arkánum
• Italian: la morte, l'arcano senza nome
• Japanese: 死神 (ja) (しにがみ, shinigami)
• Korean: 죽음 (ko) (jugeum)
• Macedonian: смрт (mk) f (smrt)
• Polish: śmierć (pl)
• Portuguese: Morte f, arcano sem nome m
• Spanish: la muerte, el arcano de la muerte
• Turkish: ölüm (tr)

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• Bengali: নিধন (bn) (nidhon)
• German: Tod (de) m, Untergang (de) m
• Hindi: निधन (hi) (nidhan)
• Japanese: 消滅 (ja) (しょうめつ, shōmetsu), 滅亡 (ja) (めつぼう, metsubō)
• Maori: pahemotanga
• Norwegian:
  • Bokmål: undergang
  • Nynorsk: undergang m
• Turkish: son (tr), çöküş (tr), bitim (tr)
• Walloon: fén (wa) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Norman: ^{(please verify)} trépas m (Jersey)

See also

• afterlife
• die
• the big one
• the big sleep
• cemetery
• funeral
• graveyard
• morgue
• mortal
• mortician
• mortuary
• obituary
• tombstone
• cremation

Further reading

• The Definition of Death - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Anagrams

• Theda, hated

Japanese

Etymology

Appropriation of English death for a homophone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [de̞sɨᵝ]

Verb

death(デス) • (desu) 

1. (slang, humorous) Alternative spelling of です (desu)
   • [2000, 言語‎^[1], volume 第 29 巻、第 1～4 号:

     「なのでR」や「そうdeath」

     (please add an English translation of this quote)]

   • 2009, ニホンちゃんしるブプレ: 国際情勢風刺寓話集‎^[2], ニホンちゃんしるブプレ, →ISBN, page 32:

     ニホンちゃんの特別な存在になるにはカンコ君、あと半万年ほど時間がかかりそう death

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   • 2020 September 5, 剣名舞; 浅田有皆, M.C.☆LAW　大合本（全3巻）‎^[3], ゴマブックス株式会社:

     合気道五段の私にちょっかいかけるからDEATH(デス)わよ

     (please add an English translation of this quote)