Death en · PROPN
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The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
7 And when hee had opened the fourth seale, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. 8 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.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 6:7–8: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.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide: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!
1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 137:Death can be seen on a tarot card.
- A surname.
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the rider · the angel of death · psychopomp · Santa Muerte · Azrael · the Grim Reaper · the Shinigami · the pale rider · the reaper
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kw Ankow (the personification of death) · ko 사신 (the personification of death) · de Knochenmann (the personification of death) · srn Akama-yaw (the personification of death) · de Schnitter Tod (the personification of death) · de Todbringer (the personification of death) · he מַלְאַךְ הַמָּוֶת (the personification of death) · cy yr Angau (the personification of death) · vi tử thần (the personification of death) · de König der Toten (the personification of death) · ja 死神 (the personification of death) · es muerte (the personification of death) · hu Kaszás (the personification of death) · de Sensenmann (the personification of death) · de Freund Hein (the personification of death) · de Boandl (the personification of death) · he הַמָּוֶת (the personification of death) · ru а́нгел сме́рти (the personification of death) · fr Camarde (the personification of death) · cmn 死神 (the personification of death) · pl Śmierć (the personification of death) · de Tod (the personification of death) · tl Kamatayan (the personification of death) · ko 저승사자 (the personification of death) · la Persephonē (the personification of death) · kk Ажал (the personification of death) · fi mana (the personification of death) · hu Halál (the personification of death) · vi thần chết (the personification of death) · eo Mortulo (the personification of death) · ru смерть (the personification of death) · es Muerte (the personification of death) · de Gevatter Tod (the personification of death) · de Boandlkramer (the personification of death) · de Schlafes Bruder (the personification of death) · de Boanl (the personification of death) · fr Mort (the personification of death) · de Boanlkramer (the personification of death) · br Ankoù (the personification of death) · sv döden (the personification of death) · az Əzrail (the personification of death) · cs smrtka (the personification of death) · pt Morte (the personification of death) · de Schnitter (the personification of death) · ru костля́вая (the personification of death) · srn Fedi (the personification of death) · is Dauðinn (the personification of death) · it Morte (the personification of death) · de Todesengel (the personification of death) · sv liemannen (the personification of death)