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alligators
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æ.l?.?e?.t?z/
- (General American) enPR: ?l??-g?-t?rz, IPA(key): /?æl.?.?e?.??z/
- Hyphenation: al?li?ga?tor
Noun
alligators
- plural of alligator
Verb
alligators
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alligator
Anagrams
- astroglial
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
alligators
- Plural form of alligator
French
Noun
alligators m
- plural of alligator
Swedish
Noun
alligators
- indefinite genitive singular of alligator
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ali??a?t?s/
Noun
alligators
- plural of alligator
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death
English
Alternative forms
- deth (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English deeth, from Old English d?aþ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz (compare West Frisian dead, Dutch dood, German Tod, Swedish död), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ówtus. Equivalent to die +? -th. More at die.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?th, IPA(key): /d??/
- Rhymes: -??
- (West Country) IPA(key): /di??/
- Homophones: debt (with th-stopping), deaf (with th-fronting)
Noun
death (countable and uncountable, plural deaths)
- The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
- Execution (in the judicial sense).
- Execution (in the judicial sense).
- (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English d?aþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male ???????? (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics.
- (the death) The collapse or end of something.
- 1983, Robert R. Faulkner, Music on Demand (page 90)
- He may even find himself being blamed if the project dies a quick and horrible death at the box office or is unceremoniously axed by the network.
- (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
- 1983, Robert R. Faulkner, Music on Demand (page 90)
- (figuratively) Spiritual lifelessness.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:death
Derived terms
Pages starting with “death”.
Translations
See also
Further reading
- The Definition of Death - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Anagrams
- Theda, hated
death From the web:
- what death note character am i
- what death leaves behind
- what death rate constitutes a pandemic
- what death is like
- what death looks like
- what death eater are you
- what death leaves behind lyrics
- what death teaches us
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