"dead as a dodo" meaning in English

See dead as a dodo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: En-au-dead as a dodo.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} dead as a dodo (not comparable)
  1. (simile) Undoubtedly and unquestionably dead. Tags: not-comparable Related terms: go the way of the dodo, go the way of the dodo bird Translations (unquestionably dead): morsdood (Dutch), aussi mort qu’un dodo (French), mausetot (German), steindauður [masculine] (Icelandic), mate ā moa (Maori), stendöd (Swedish), död som en sill (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-dead_as_a_dodo-en-adj-bLctNuoX Categories (other): English similes, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 6 Disambiguation of 'unquestionably dead': 93 7
  2. (simile) Very much out of date. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-dead_as_a_dodo-en-adj-Rsm3McYg Categories (other): English similes

Download JSON data for dead as a dodo meaning in English (2.2kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "dead as a dodo (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English similes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Undoubtedly and unquestionably dead."
      ],
      "id": "en-dead_as_a_dodo-en-adj-bLctNuoX",
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) Undoubtedly and unquestionably dead."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "word": "go the way of the dodo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "word": "go the way of the dodo bird"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "unquestionably dead",
          "word": "morsdood"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "unquestionably dead",
          "word": "aussi mort qu’un dodo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "unquestionably dead",
          "word": "mausetot"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "unquestionably dead",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "steindauður"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "unquestionably dead",
          "word": "mate ā moa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "unquestionably dead",
          "word": "stendöd"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "93 7",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "unquestionably dead",
          "word": "död som en sill"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English similes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Very much out of date."
      ],
      "id": "en-dead_as_a_dodo-en-adj-Rsm3McYg",
      "links": [
        [
          "out of date",
          "out of date"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) Very much out of date."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-dead as a dodo.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/00/En-au-dead_as_a_dodo.ogg/En-au-dead_as_a_dodo.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-au-dead_as_a_dodo.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dead as a dodo"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "dead as a dodo (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "go the way of the dodo"
    },
    {
      "word": "go the way of the dodo bird"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English similes"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Undoubtedly and unquestionably dead."
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) Undoubtedly and unquestionably dead."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English similes"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Very much out of date."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "out of date",
          "out of date"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile) Very much out of date."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-dead as a dodo.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/00/En-au-dead_as_a_dodo.ogg/En-au-dead_as_a_dodo.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-au-dead_as_a_dodo.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "unquestionably dead",
      "word": "morsdood"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unquestionably dead",
      "word": "aussi mort qu’un dodo"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unquestionably dead",
      "word": "mausetot"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "unquestionably dead",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "steindauður"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "unquestionably dead",
      "word": "mate ā moa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "unquestionably dead",
      "word": "stendöd"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "unquestionably dead",
      "word": "död som en sill"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dead as a dodo"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (8203a16 and 304864d). 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.