deathplace

[ deth-pleys ]

noun

1. the place at which a person dies:

   Lincoln is buried in Illinois, but his deathplace was Washington, D.C.

Word History and Origins

Origin of deathplace¹

First recorded in 1820–30; death + place

Example Sentences

Like that was a completely peachy thing for black boys to be singing in the birthplace of Stax Records and the deathplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. They walked into their grandparents’ house in Soulsville singing that.

From The New Yorker

Many barges and tjalcks are both the birthplace and deathplace of their owners, who know no other home.

From Project Gutenberg

The gentleman to whom this foreboding speech was addressed paid a visit, some months after the interment, to Hucknall, and was much struck, as I have heard, on approaching the village, by the strong likeness it seemed to him to bear to his lost friend's melancholy deathplace, Missolonghi.

From Project Gutenberg