- Obs. death
- a note sounded on a hunting horn when the quarry is killed
Origin of mort
Old French from Classical Latin mors, death: see mortalmort
mortDial. a great quantity or number
Origin of mort
uncertain or unknown; perhaps altered (infl. by mort) from dialect, dialectal merth, excess from Old Norse mergth, a multitude; akin to margr, muchWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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mort
noun
The note sounded on a hunting horn to announce the death of a deer.
Origin of mort
Middle English death from Old French from Latin mors mort-; see mer- in Indo-European roots.noun
A great number or quantity.
Origin of mort
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Noun
(plural morts)
Origin
French mort (“death").
Noun
- A great quantity or number.
Origin
Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr, "many".
Noun
(plural morts)
- (Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
Origin
Shortening of mortal.
Origin
Uncertain.
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Origin
Unknown
Proper noun
- A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.
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