Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

death-price

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English

Syllables: death-price
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A monetary value assigned to a person based on their social rank, representing the compensation to be paid by an offender to the victim’s family in the event of unlawful killing.

Example Sentences

"Sad lays were sung about the beset king, the vicious raids and ravages of Grendel, [...] how he would never parley or make peace with any Dane nor stop his death-dealing nor pay the death-price."

Inflected Forms

death-prices (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

bloodwite wergeld

Questions

What does death-price mean?: A monetary value assigned to a person based on their social rank, representing the compensation to be paid by an offender to the victim’s family in the event of unlawful killing.

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