The meaning of FATALITY is the quality or state of causing death or destruction. How to use fatality in a sentence.

A fatality is, quite simply and grimly, a human death. You will often hear fatality used in conjunction with the aftermath of a disaster, natural or otherwise. For example, a news broadcaster may say, "We have received reports of at least one fatality as a result of the storm."

FATALITY definition: 1. a death caused by an accident or by violence, or someone who has died in either of these ways…. Learn more.

the quality of causing death or disaster; a fatal influence; deadliness. a fatality for saying the wrong thing. There is a fatality in human affairs that leads to destruction. Death is the ultimate …

FATALITY meaning: 1 : a death that results from a disaster, accident, etc.; 2 : a tendency to result in death

fatality - a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities"

A fatality is a death caused by an accident or by violence. Drunk driving fatalities have declined more than 10 percent over the past 10 years. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. It seems that your browser is blocking this video content.

FATALITY meaning: the death of a person caused by violence or an accident. Learn more.

There are nine meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun fatality. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

Definition of fatality noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [countable] a death that is caused in an accident or a war, or by violence or disease. Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.