English Explanatory Dictionary

appointment in Samarra

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One's death.

Word forms

appointment in Samarra appointments in Samarra

Etymology

Literary reference to an ancient Babylonian myth, transcribed by W. Somerset Maugham, in which Death is both the narrator and a central character.

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