dead

Pronunciation: /dɛd/

Reading level: easy

Estimated CEFR level: A1 — Beginner

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun people who are no longer living
  2. noun a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
  3. adjective no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

Etymology

From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud, Swedish död.

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Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
people
Narrower (hyponyms)
slain
Opposite (antonyms)
living

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