dead person
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- noun
- /dɛd ˈpɜrsən/
:
fallecido
- It’s important to treat the belongings of a dead person with respect and care.
I'm like, so you've seen dead people and ghosts your entire life.
- I'm like, so you've seen dead people and ghosts your entire life.
- So, you know, it's going to be like about dead people and ghosts and stuff like that.
- And it's a tombstone, and the name of the dead person is inscribed on it.
- So my guess right now is that it's a dead person.
- Have you ever tried talking to dead people?
- This is about a girl, and she can see dead people.
- Not only were they coming in and putting in a ballot, but dead people were requesting ballots.
- Islam says there are spirits on earth with us, not ghosts of dead people, but spirits called jinn in Arabic.
- But first, I'm going to talk about Trump's allegation that dead people are voting with a surprise guest.
- But when you see it from our lens, we just see dead people walking.
- In those two cities, a lot of dead people voted.
- And he said that he was like, I see a lot of dead people.
Examples
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Her fingers were stiff, like those of a dead person, and her expression was incredibly sad.
Fiction book (1991) -
Did you see a lot of dead people?
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It's hard to be friends with a dead person, you know?
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These people did not know what happened to dead people in Christ.
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One problem was that dead people, being dead, could not demand their rights.
Fiction book (1999) -
"Mrs. Winter says that dead people get to see Jesus," I said.
Fiction book (1997) -
We have the person, the dead person, their body embalmed.
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History is just a bunch of dead people from before I was born. -- David, an eighth-grade student.
Academic text (2002) -
He'd never seen a dead person before outside of a funeral home.
Fiction book (1999) -
The funeral home prepared the body of the dead person for the viewing.
Synonyms
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The dead remains of a person or animal
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A dead body of a person
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A person or animal that is no longer alive
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6.0
The body parts left after a person has died
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A person who is dead, especially in legal papers
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A person who has died
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A person who is dead
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A dead person or animal
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A person who has died
An old word for a dead person
Antonyms
How Injured
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- Jargon
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who is no longer alive' is directly and compositionally derived from 'dead' (not alive) modifying 'person' (a human being). This adjective+noun construction is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Dead person is a simple, literal combination of dead (no longer alive) and person (a human). People used these two words together to say someone had died, so today it means 'a person who is no longer alive'.