death-price

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.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

noundeath-price (plural death-prices)

plural death-prices

  1. GermanichistoricallawA 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.

    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.

    1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 7
Cite this entry
APA

death-price. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/death-price

MLA

“death-price.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/death-price. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “death-price,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/death-price.

Source: death-price on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.