deathday
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.24 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The placing of the dragon is inevitable: a man can but die upon his death-day."
- ""Is it her deathday?" I asked. "Nope," he said."
- "‘Well, this Hallowe’en will be my five hundredth deathday,’ said Nearly Headless Nick, drawing himself up and looking dignified."
- "It only just dawned on me that intrinsically it felt better to honor her on her birthday rather than her deathday. It has always struck me as odd that more people remember the day Elvis or John Lennon died than the dates they were born."
- "[…] 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."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: deth-day, dēaþdæġ