grim reaper

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   Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe

   SynonymsReaper

   BroaderDeath

Questions about grim reaper

What does grim reaper mean?

grim reaper means "Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe".

What is another word for grim reaper?

Close synonyms include Reaper. 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 grim reaper a common word?

grim reaper 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.