Meaning

7 senses
  1. A personification of death in fiction, art, mythology, or religion.

    An angel which attends to death, collecting souls at death, ending life at the appointed time of death.

  2. An angel in Abrahamic scripture or eschatology that attends to death.

    Azrael.

  3. Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  4. A personification of death in fiction, art, mythology, or religion.

    The Grim Reaper.

  5. A shinigami.

  6. A type of serial killer who is employed as a caregiver and kills people under their care.

  7. Synonym of destroying angel (“a type of mushroom”).

Examples

6 sentences
  1. I am the angel of death and I have come to get you all.

    ruЯ ангел смерти, и я пришел, чтобы забрать вас всех. — dimitris

    deIch bin der Engel des Todes und bin gekommen, um euch alle zu holen. — Plusquamperfekt

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  2. "What happens to man," asked himself the wise man, "when touched by the angel of death?"

    de„Was geschieht mit dem Menschen“, fragte sich der weise Mann, „wenn er vom Engel des Todes berühret wird?“ — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. The Angel of Death read my sentence aloud to me.

  4. The Angel of Death is reading me a list of my sins.

  5. Reish Lakish says: The same being is Satan, the Evil Inclination, and the Angel of Death.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
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personification of death in fiction and in art:
Deutsch
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personification of death in fiction and in art:

Forms

plural: angels of death
Singularangel of death
Pluralangels of death

irregular · Lesson

Synonyms

3 synonyms

See also

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