noun
Meaning 1
A plaster or similar cast of a person's face after death.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
death mask
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noun
Meaning 2
a cast taken from the face of a dead person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cast, casting
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: قناع الموت — a plaster or similar cast
- Armenian: հետմահու դիմակ (hetmahu dimak) — a plaster or similar cast
- Basque: hil mozorro — a plaster or similar cast
- Belarusian: пасмяротная маска (pasmjarótnaja maska) — a plaster or similar cast
- Catalan: màscara mortuòria — a plaster or similar cast
- Czech: posmrtná maska — a plaster or similar cast
- Dutch: dodenmasker — a plaster or similar cast
- Esperanto: mortmasko — a plaster or similar cast
- Estonian: surimask — a plaster or similar cast
- Finnish: kuolinnaamio — a plaster or similar cast
- French: masque mortuaire — a plaster or similar cast
- French: masque funéraire — a plaster or similar cast
- German: Totenmaske — a plaster or similar cast
- Greek: νεκρική μάσκα (nekrikí máska) — a plaster or similar cast
- Hungarian: halotti maszk — a plaster or similar cast
- Icelandic: helgríma — a plaster or similar cast
- Indonesian: topeng kematian — a plaster or similar cast
- Italian: maschera mortuaria — a plaster or similar cast
- Japanese: デスマスク (desumasuku) — a plaster or similar cast
- Japanese: 死面 (shimen) — a plaster or similar cast
- Korean: 데스마스크 (deseumaseukeu) — a plaster or similar cast
- Manx: far-eddin vaaish — a plaster or similar cast
- Norwegian: dødsmaske — a plaster or similar cast
- Persian: ماسک مرگ — a plaster or similar cast
- Polish: maska pośmiertna — a plaster or similar cast
- Portuguese: máscara mortuária — a plaster or similar cast
- Romanian: mască mortuară — a plaster or similar cast
- Russian: посме́ртная ма́ска (posmértnaja máska) — a plaster or similar cast
- Slovak: posmrtna maska — a plaster or similar cast
- Spanish: máscara mortuoria — a plaster or similar cast
- Swedish: dödsmask — a plaster or similar cast
- Ukrainian: посмертна маска (posmertna maska) — a plaster or similar cast