Mort Definition

môrt
noun
Death.
Webster's New World
A note sounded on a hunting horn when the quarry is killed.
Webster's New World
A great quantity or number.
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(UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.

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(Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.

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pronoun

A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.

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Origin of Mort

  • Middle English death from Old French from Latin mors mort- mer- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr, "many".

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  • French mort (“death").

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  • Shortening of mortal.

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  • Perhaps from mortal

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Uncertain.

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  • Unknown

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Mort Sentence Examples

  • Mort's dock, another large dry dock, is at Mort's Bay, Balmain, while there are five floating docks with a combined lifting power of 3895 tons, and the three patent slips in Mort's Bay can raise between them 3040 tons.

  • Coming to Italy during an epidemic of plague, he was very diligent in tending the sick in the public hospitals at Aquapendente, Cesena and Rome, and effected many miraculous cures by entre nous, a la vie, a la mort."

  • They met death with great courage, singing the refrain "Plutot la mort que l'esclavage !"

  • He devoted some volumes to a history of Spain, which had a well-deserved success - Charles Quint, son abdication, son sejour, et sa mort au monastere de Yuste (1845); Antonio Perez et Philippe II.

  • His Catechism (Catechisme ou instruction familiere, 1652) and his Christian's Defense against the Fears of Death (Consolations de l'dme fidele contre les frayeurs de la mort, 1651) became well known in England by means of translations, which were very frequently reprinted.

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Words Starting With

MMOMOR

Words Ending With

TRTORT

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Words Starting With M and Ending With T

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With M4 Letter Words Ending With T