(noun) (with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died. Example: "Have respect for the dead."
"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."
"Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead."
"Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse."
"For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before."
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness."
"The dead should not rule the living."
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
"It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest."
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."