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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Death.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, figuratively, uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: demise, fatality, death, tomb, celestial transfer, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization, dirt nap, doom, exit, expiration, liquidation, mortality, passing, quietus, repose, sleep of the just, sunset, the big sleep, crash, downfall, fall, (the) bane, (the) end
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Final settlement (e.g., of a debt).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: death
History
Short for Medieval Latin quiētus est (literally “he is quiet”). First attested in the 1530s. Earlier attested as Late Middle English quietus est. Doublet of coy, quiet, quit, and quite.
