cause of death

1. 1.

   the causal agent resulting in death

   “heart disease is the biggest killer in the United States”

   Synonymskiller

   Broadercausal agent

Questions about cause of death

What does cause of death mean?

cause of death means "the causal agent resulting in death".

What is another word for cause of death?

Close synonyms include killer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cause of death a common word?

cause of death is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.