English Explanatory Dictionary

mort

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
  2. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
  3. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
  4. A variety of dummy whist for three players.
  5. The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
noun
  1. A great quantity or number.
noun
  1. A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
noun
  1. A three-year-old salmon.
noun
  1. A woman; a female.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.

Pronunciation

/mɔːt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mort.wav /mɔɹt/ /mɔː(ɹ)t/

Word forms

mort morts mot mott

Etymology

From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).

Synonyms

woman

Antonyms

immort

Related words

alamort all-a-mort mort d'ancestor mort de chien

Derived words

micromort morkin mort bell mort cloth morthouse mortling mort stone remort autem mort ben mort dimber mort gentry mort kinchin mort mort dell mort wap-apace nazie mort queer mort rum mort strolling mort walking mort wapping mort Morts Estate
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