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deathday

deathday noun: the day of a person's death, especially when viewed as being appointed by fate.

Noun

deathday (plural deathdays)

  1. The day of a person's death, especially when viewed as being appointed by fate.
    • The placing of the dragon is inevitable: a man can but die upon his death-day.1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 32
  2. The anniversary of a death, the date upon which someone died in a bygone year.
    • "Is it her deathday?" I asked. "Nope," he said.1996, Patrick O'Leary, Door Number Three, →ISBN, page 362
    • ‘Well, this Hallowe’en will be my five hundredth deathday,’ said Nearly Headless Nick, drawing himself up and looking dignified.1998 July 2, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Deathday Party”, in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter; 2), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

deathday meaning in Gujarati and Vietnamese

deathday in Gujarati

deathday
મરણતિથિ maraṇtithi

deathday in Vietnamese

anniversary of a death
ngày giỗ

Examples of deathday in a sentence

  • It only just dawned on me that intrinsically it felt better to honor her on her birthday rather than her deathday.2009, Duchess Dale, How May I Love You Today?, →ISBN, page 199:
  • […] just then we needed a tenth man and needed him badly, because one of us had a deathday to observe and wanted to say the mourner's prayer.2011, Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman and The Railroad Stories:

Antonyms of deathday

Forms of deathday

pluraldeathdays

Origin of deathday

From Middle English deth-day, deth day, dethe-day, deþ day, from Old English dēaþdæġ (“day of one's death, deathday”), equivalent to death + day. Compare birthday. Compare also German Low German Doodsdag (“deathday”), German Todestag (“deathday”), Danish dødsdag (“deathday”), Swedish dödsdag (“deathday”).

Questions about deathday

What does deathday mean?
Deathday means the day of a person's death, especially when viewed as being appointed by fate.
What is deathday in Gujarati?
Deathday in Gujarati is મરણતિથિ (maraṇtithi). See Deathday meaning in Gujarati.
How do you use deathday in a sentence?
It only just dawned on me that intrinsically it felt better to honor her on her birthday rather than her deathday.
What part of speech is deathday?
Deathday is a noun.
What is the plural of deathday?
The plural of deathday is deathdays.

Words near deathday in the dictionary

  1. deathcamps
  2. deathcare
  3. deathcore
  4. deathdate
  5. deathdates
  6. deathday
  7. deathdays
  8. deathen
  9. deathened
  10. deathening
  11. deathens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deathday (page history and authors); મરણતિથિ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). 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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