单词 | deathplace |
释义 | deathplacen. The place where a person died or is going to die. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > place of deathbedOE grass-bedOE fosse?a1425 death house1647 bed of death1734 bed of dust1747 deathplace1790 1790 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. Index sig. Gg6v/2 Redmore, the death place of Richard III. 1830 T. Moore Byron II. 778 His lost friend's melancholy deathplace, Missolonghi. 1899 Chambers's Jrnl. 6th Ser. 2 619/2 His limbs, however, refused to support him in the procession to the death-place, and he was placed in a hired chair. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 16 Nov. 9/2 Violating the precedents which prescribe the death-place of the rulers of China. 1937 Tablet 23 Oct. 553/2 To follow Moses from birth- to death-place (neither of which will ever be ascertainable). 1992 P. Baikie et al. Absolutely 139 Welcome to the birthplace and indeed, deathplace of Alexander Pope the famous poet from the Olden days. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1790 |
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