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deathbed

UK/ˈdɛθˌbɛd/

deathbed noun: the bed on which someone dies.

Noun

deathbed (plural deathbeds)

  1. The bed on which someone dies.
    • He was once on his way to an old woman, who was on her death-bed and who had led a wicked life.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 254
  2. The last hours before death.
  3. A grave; the site of a burial or entombment.
    • “Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow? Ask them to climb this headland and build me a death pile high on its top. Let my deathbed rise high above Hronesnesse.”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47

deathbed meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

deathbed in Hindi

मृत्युशय्या

deathbed in Tamil

the bed on which someone dies
சாவுப்படுக்கை cāvuppaṭukkai, மரணப்படுக்கை maraṇappaṭukkai

deathbed in Urdu

بستر مرگ

deathbed in Telugu

the bed on which someone dies
చావుపడక cāvupaḍaka, మరణశయ్య maraṇaśayya
More languagesFewer languages
deathbed in Malayalam
മരണശയ്യ
deathbed in Kannada
ಮರಣಶಯ್ಯೆ, ಅವಸಾನ ಕಾಲ, ಸಾಯುವ ಕಾಲ
deathbed in Odia
ମୃତ୍ଯ଼ୁଶଯ୍ଯ଼ା
deathbed in Nepali
मृत्युशय्या

Examples of deathbed in a sentence

  • They converted her to Roman Catholicism on her deathbed.
  • "Gamboling, sashaying, waving the parchment — bathed in the ever-blondening halo of our father's sweet deathbed blessing."
  • On his deathbed he had called the young Captain to his side.

All 11 example sentences with deathbed

Forms of deathbed

pluraldeathbeds
alternative formdeath-bed
alternative formdeath bed

Plural of deathbed: deathbeds

Origin of deathbed

From Middle English dethbed, from Old English dēaþbedd (“deathbed; grave”), equivalent to death + bed. Cognate with Swedish dödsbädd (“deathbed”). Compare also Dutch sterfbed (“deathbed”), German Sterbebett and Totenbett (both “deathbed”), Danish dødsleje (“deathbed”).

Words formed from deathbed

Phrases with deathbed

Questions about deathbed

What does deathbed mean?
Deathbed means the bed on which someone dies.
What is deathbed in Hindi?
Deathbed in Hindi is मृत्युशय्या. See Deathbed meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is deathbed?
Deathbed is a noun.
How do you pronounce deathbed?
Deathbed is pronounced /ˈdɛθˌbɛd/ (UK).
What is the plural of deathbed?
The plural of deathbed is deathbeds.

Words near deathbed in the dictionary

  1. death-wail
  2. death-wails
  3. death-watch beetle
  4. death-watch beetles
  5. death/doom
  6. deathbed
  7. deathbed conversion
  8. deathbed conversions
  9. deathbeds
  10. deathbell
  11. deathbells

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deathbed (page history and authors); deathbed (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deathbed (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deathbed (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deathbed (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deathbed (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deathbed (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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