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say it: deth
death is a noun meaning "the event of dying or departure from life". It carries 8 recorded senses.
the event of dying or departure from life
“her death came as a terrible shock”
“upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren”
the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
“the animal died a painful death”
the absence of life or state of being dead
“he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life”
the personification of death
“Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city”
a final state
“he came to a bad end”
“the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for death come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.