deceased person

Questions about deceased person

What does deceased person mean?

deceased person means "someone who is no longer alive".

What is another word for deceased person?

Close synonyms include dead person, dead soul, deceased, decedent, departed. 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 deceased person a common word?

deceased person 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.