Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English homepage

death rate

 noun
     
death rate [countable]
1S the number of deaths for every 100 or every 1000 people in a particular year and in a particular place [↪ birth rate]
2 the number of deaths each year from a particular disease or in a particular group:
childhood death rates
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Dictionary pictures of the day
Do you know what each of these is called?
What is the word for picture 1? What is the word for picture 2? What is the word for picture 3? What is the word for picture 4?
Click on any of the pictures above to find out what it is called.

Explore our topic dictionary

Browse the dictionary