mort
mort¹
Definition
mort (môrt)
noun
- Obsolete death
- a note sounded on a hunting horn when the quarry is killed
Etymology: OFr < L mors, death: see mortal
mort²
Definition
mort (môrt)
noun
Dialectal a great quantity or number
Etymology: ? altered (infl. by mort) < dial. merth, excess < ON mergth, a multitude; akin to margr, much
mort
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- petit: The French have an expression for feelings such as these, le petit mort, the little death.
Modifies a noun
- cloth: Hearse and mort cloth hire also brought in money but both of these could be supplied by independent societies, for a fee.
- house: Churchyard has stone and slate ' mort house ' , built 3832, to protect unburied dead from clutches of resurrections.
- à: Henry mort à Paris gist icy sous la lame.
- son: Son père est mort quand son fils est né .
- tres: We start with Simone de Beauvoir's Une mort très douce, the story of her mother's slow death.
- au: William: Je vais donner à mes soldats seulement le terrain des hommes qui sont morts au combat.
Noun used with modifier
Browse dictionary entries near mort
- morsel
- Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
- Morse code
- Morse
- Mors
- morrow
- morro
- Morrison
- Morris Worm
- Morris Jesup
