"to the death" meaning in English

See to the death in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase

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, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 94 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 97 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 97 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 89 11 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
{
  "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"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "97 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "97 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Irish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The two gladiators fought to the death.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "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": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208:",
          "text": "Then, alluding with a toss of the head to the tumult in the station-yard, ‘When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages - hate them to the death.’ He remained thoughtful for a moment.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations"
  ],
  "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": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The two gladiators fought to the death.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "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",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208:",
          "text": "Then, alluding with a toss of the head to the tumult in the station-yard, ‘When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages - hate them to the death.’ He remained thoughtful for a moment.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "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"
}

Download raw JSONL data for to the death meaning in English (2.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.