Death

Proper noun

1. The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
   • Death can be seen on a tarot card.
   • 7 And when hee had opened the fourth seale, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. 8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sate on him was Death, and hell followed with him: and power...
   • Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion! - 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the...

   Synonyms: the angel of death Azrael the Grim Reaper the reaper the pale rider the rider psychopomp Santa Muerte the Shinigami

2. A surname.