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death's-head en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A human skull, especially as symbol of death.
   • To the confusion and confounding of that cursed death's-head knight. 1952, Ivanhoe, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2018:
   • This Komarov, a Cossack’s son, was a very short man with a crew cut and a death's-head's nostrils. 1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 3.5, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 71:
2. A kind of hawk moth with pale markings on the back of the thorax somewhat like a skull.

Forms

Relateds

skull and crossbones · Jolly Roger · memento mori

Translations (19)

tr kurukafa (a human skull, as symbol of death) · de Totenkopf (a human skull, as symbol of death) · hu koponya (a human skull, as symbol of death) · ga blaosc mairbh (a human skull, as symbol of death) · it teschio (a human skull, as symbol of death) · fr tête de mort (a human skull, as symbol of death) · fi pääkallo (a human skull, as symbol of death) · ru мёртвая голова́ (a human skull, as symbol of death) · sv dödskalle (a human skull, as symbol of death) · sh mrtvačka glava (a human skull, as symbol of death) · hu halálfej (a human skull, as symbol of death) · pt caveira (a human skull, as symbol of death) · cs smrtihlav (a human skull, as symbol of death) · nci miquiztli (a human skull, as symbol of death) · nl doodskop (a human skull, as symbol of death) · nl doodshoofd (a human skull, as symbol of death) · nci tzontecomatl (a human skull, as symbol of death) · sh мртвачка глава (a human skull, as symbol of death) · es calavera (a human skull, as symbol of death)