DEATH'S HEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does death's head mean? 

• DEATH'S HEAD (noun)
  The noun DEATH'S HEAD has 1 sense:

1. a human skull (or a representation of a human skull) used as a symbol of death

  Familiarity information: DEATH'S HEAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEATH'S HEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A human skull (or a representation of a human skull) used as a symbol of death

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("death's head" is a kind of...):

symbol; symbolic representation; symbolisation; symbolization (something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible)