deathbed
sustantivoatestiguado en diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈdɛθˌbɛd//
The bed on which someone dies.
sustantivo
- 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.
- 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.”
Etimología
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”).
Formas
- plural
- deathbeds