English
WOTD – 29 May 2011
Etymology
From death + watch.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɛθwɒtʃ/
Noun
deathwatch (plural deathwatches)
- A vigil beside a dying person
- One who guards a condemned person before execution.
- A deathwatch beetle.
Translations
a vigil beside a dying person
- Bulgarian: бдение при умиращ (bdenie pri umirašt)
- Finnish: valvojaiset (fi) pl, ruumiinvalvojaiset (fi) pl
- German: Totenwache (de) f
- Russian: дежу́рство у постели умершего (dežúrstvo u posteli umerševo), бо́дрствование у постели умирающего (bódrstvovanije u posteli umirajuščevo)
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one who guards a condemned person before execution
a deathwatch beetle
- Bulgarian: бръмбар-гробар (brǎmbar-grobar)
- Catalan: escarabat del rellotge de la mort m
- Finnish: puunkaivaja (fi)
- Galician: couza f
- Russian: точильщик пёстрый (točilʹščik pjóstryj), книжная вошь (knižnaja vošʹ)
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