"Death" meaning in English

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Proper name

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  1. The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Categories (topical): Death, Personifications Synonyms: the angel of death, Azrael, the Grim Reaper, the reaper, the pale rider, the rider, psychopomp, Santa Muerte, the Shinigami Derived forms: I am become Death, destroyer of worlds Related terms: La Calavera Catrina, Hades Coordinate_terms: Chronos, Father Time Translations (the personification of death): Əzrail (Azerbaijani), Ankoù (Breton), 死神 (sǐshén) (Chinese Mandarin), Ankow [masculine] (Cornish), smrtka [feminine] (Czech), Mortulo (Esperanto), mana (Finnish), Mort [feminine] (French), Camarde [feminine, informal] (French), Tod [masculine, person] (German), Sensenmann [masculine] (German), Gevatter Tod [masculine] (German), Schlafes Bruder [masculine] (German), Schnitter [masculine] (German), Schnitter Tod [masculine] (German), Todesengel [masculine] (German), Todbringer [masculine] (German), Knochenmann [masculine] (German), König der Toten [masculine] (German), Freund Hain [masculine] (German), Freund Hein [masculine] (German), Boanlkramer [masculine] (German), Boandlkramer [masculine] (German), Boanl [masculine] (German), Boandl (english: preceding 4 terms - Bavarian) [masculine] (German), מַלְאַךְ הַמָּוֶת (mal'ách hamávet) [masculine] (Hebrew), הַמָּוֶת (hamávet) [masculine] (Hebrew), Halál (Hungarian), Kaszás (Hungarian), Dauðinn (Icelandic), Morte [feminine] (Italian), 死神 (shinigami) (alt: しにがみ) (Japanese), Ажал (Ajal) (Kazakh), 사신 (sasin) (alt: 死神) (Korean), 저승사자 (jeoseungsaja) (Korean), Persephonē [feminine] (Latin), Morte [feminine] (Portuguese), смерть (smertʹ) (alt: с косо́й) [feminine] (Russian), костля́вая (kostljávaja) [colloquial, feminine] (Russian), а́нгел сме́рти (ángel smérti) [masculine] [religion, lifestyle] (Russian), muerte [feminine] (Spanish), Muerte [feminine] (Spanish), Fedi (Sranan Tongo), Akama-yaw (Sranan Tongo), döden (Swedish), liemannen (Swedish), Kamatayan (Tagalog), tử thần (alt: 死神) (Vietnamese), thần chết (Vietnamese), yr Angau [masculine] (Welsh)
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          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 6:7–8:",
          "text": "7 And when hee had opened the fourth seale, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.\n8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sate on him was Death, and hell followed with him: and power was giuen vnto them, ouer the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword, & with hunger, and with death, and with the beastes of the earth.",
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          "text": "Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!",
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          "text": "Death can be seen on a tarot card.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 6:7–8:",
          "text": "7 And when hee had opened the fourth seale, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.\n8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sate on him was Death, and hell followed with him: and power was giuen vnto them, ouer the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword, & with hunger, and with death, and with the beastes of the earth.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 137:",
          "text": "Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:",
          "text": "He had drunk more than was fit for him, and he was singing some light song, when he saw approaching, as he said, the pale horse mentioned in the Revelation, with Death seated as the rider.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "personification",
          "personification"
        ],
        [
          "death",
          "death"
        ],
        [
          "skeleton",
          "skeleton"
        ],
        [
          "scythe",
          "scythe"
        ],
        [
          "horsemen",
          "horseman"
        ],
        [
          "apocalypse",
          "apocalypse"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "the angel of death"
        },
        {
          "word": "Azrael"
        },
        {
          "word": "the Grim Reaper"
        },
        {
          "word": "the reaper"
        },
        {
          "word": "the pale rider"
        },
        {
          "word": "the rider"
        },
        {
          "word": "psychopomp"
        },
        {
          "word": "Santa Muerte"
        },
        {
          "word": "the Shinigami"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "Əzrail"
    },
    {
      "code": "br",
      "lang": "Breton",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "Ankoù"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "sǐshén",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "死神"
    },
    {
      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ankow"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "smrtka"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "Mortulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "mana"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Mort"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "informal"
      ],
      "word": "Camarde"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "person"
      ],
      "word": "Tod"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sensenmann"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Gevatter Tod"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schlafes Bruder"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schnitter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Schnitter Tod"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Todesengel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Todbringer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Knochenmann"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "König der Toten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Freund Hain"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Freund Hein"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Boanlkramer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Boandlkramer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Boanl"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "preceding 4 terms - Bavarian",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Boandl"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "mal'ách hamávet",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "מַלְאַךְ הַמָּוֶת"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "hamávet",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "הַמָּוֶת"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "Halál"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "Kaszás"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "Dauðinn"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Morte"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しにがみ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shinigami",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "死神"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "Ajal",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "Ажал"
    },
    {
      "alt": "死神",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sasin",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "사신"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jeoseungsaja",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "저승사자"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Persephonē"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Morte"
    },
    {
      "alt": "с косо́й",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "smertʹ",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "смерть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kostljávaja",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "костля́вая"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ángel smérti",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "religion",
        "lifestyle"
      ],
      "word": "а́нгел сме́рти"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "muerte"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Muerte"
    },
    {
      "code": "srn",
      "lang": "Sranan Tongo",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "Fedi"
    },
    {
      "code": "srn",
      "lang": "Sranan Tongo",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "Akama-yaw"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "döden"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "liemannen"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "Kamatayan"
    },
    {
      "alt": "死神",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "tử thần"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "word": "thần chết"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "the personification of death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "yr Angau"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Death"
}

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