"to the death" meaning in All languages combined

See to the death on Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} to the death, {{en-PP}} to the death
  1. (set phrase, of a contest) That will continue until one of the contestants dies. Translations (that one will die): go héag (Irish), na śmierć i życie (Polish)
    Sense id: en-to_the_death-en-prep_phrase-EaQvVx-E Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of 'that one will die': 100 0
  2. (idiomatic) To the utmost degree. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to the utmost degree): na śmierć i życie (Polish)
    Sense id: en-to_the_death-en-prep_phrase-TPLM5p0k Disambiguation of 'to the utmost degree': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: fight to the death Related terms: to death

Download JSON data for to the death meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "fight to the death"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "to the death",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "to the death",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "to death"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The two gladiators fought to the death."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That will continue until one of the contestants dies."
      ],
      "id": "en-to_the_death-en-prep_phrase-EaQvVx-E",
      "links": [
        [
          "set phrase",
          "set phrase"
        ],
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ],
        [
          "contestant",
          "contestant"
        ],
        [
          "die",
          "die"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "set phrase",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(set phrase, of a contest) That will continue until one of the contestants dies."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a contest"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "that one will die",
          "word": "go héag"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "that one will die",
          "word": "na śmierć i życie"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To the utmost degree."
      ],
      "id": "en-to_the_death-en-prep_phrase-TPLM5p0k",
      "links": [
        [
          "utmost",
          "utmost"
        ],
        [
          "degree",
          "degree"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To the utmost degree."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to the utmost degree",
          "word": "na śmierć i życie"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "to the death"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English prepositional phrases"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "fight to the death"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "to the death",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "to the death",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "to death"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The two gladiators fought to the death."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That will continue until one of the contestants dies."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "set phrase",
          "set phrase"
        ],
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ],
        [
          "contestant",
          "contestant"
        ],
        [
          "die",
          "die"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "set phrase",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(set phrase, of a contest) That will continue until one of the contestants dies."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a contest"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To the utmost degree."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "utmost",
          "utmost"
        ],
        [
          "degree",
          "degree"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To the utmost degree."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "that one will die",
      "word": "go héag"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "that one will die",
      "word": "na śmierć i życie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to the utmost degree",
      "word": "na śmierć i życie"
    }
  ],
  "word": "to the death"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.