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Wiktionary

  1. mortnoun

    A great quantity or number.

  2. mortnoun

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

  3. Mortnoun

    A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.

  4. Etymology: Possibly mort

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. MORTnoun

    Etymology: morte, French.

    To be making practis’d smiles,
    As in a looking-glass, and to sigh as ’twere
    The mort o’ th’ deer; oh that is entertainment
    My bosom likes not. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

Wikipedia

  1. Mort

    Mort is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the character Death, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels. The title is the name of its main character, and is also a play on words: in French and Catalan, mort means "death". The French language edition is titled Mortimer, and the Catalan language edition is titled Morth. In the BBC's 2003 Big Read contest, viewers voted on the "Nation's Best-loved Book"; Mort was among the Top 100 and chosen as the most popular of Pratchett's novels.In 2004, Pratchett stated that Mort was the first Discworld novel with which he was "pleased", stating that in previous books, the plot had existed to support the jokes, but that in Mort, the plot was integral.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mortnoun

    a great quantity or number

  2. Mortnoun

    a woman; a female

  3. Mortnoun

    a salmon in its third year

  4. Mortnoun

    death; esp., the death of game in the chase

  5. Mortnoun

    a note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game

  6. Mortnoun

    the skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease

  7. Etymology: [F., death, fr. L. mors, mortis.]

Wikidata

  1. Mort

    Mort is a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the Death of the Discworld, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels. The title is the name of its main character and also a play on words: in French, mort means "death". In the BBC's 2003 Big Read contest, viewers voted on the "Nation's Best-loved Book"; Mort was among the Top 100 and chosen as the most popular of Pratchett's novels.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mort

    mort, n. death: a flourish sounded at the death of a buck, & c., in hunting.

  2. Mort

    mort, n. a great number or amount of anything.

  3. Mort

    mort, n. (slang) a woman.

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  1. MORT

    What does MORT stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the MORT acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MORT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mort is ranked #11411 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mort surname appeared 2,762 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Mort.

    92.7% or 2,561 total occurrences were White.
    3.9% or 108 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1% or 30 total occurrences were Black.
    1% or 29 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.7% or 21 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.4% or 13 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mort in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mort in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of mort in a Sentence

  1. Charles de LEUSSE:

    The inside fight never does any dead. (Le combat intérieur Ne fait jamais de mort)

  2. Charles de LEUSSE:

    Only at death, our soul breathes. (L'âme ne respire qu'à notre mort)

  3. Charles de LEUSSE:

    The old becomes deaf, but hears death. (Le vieux devient sourd, Mais entend la mort)

  4. Donald Trump:

    The owner is a guy named Mort Zuckerman who’s got a total inferiority complex and he’s had [it] for years, he’s jealous as hell because he would have loved to have done it himself.

  5. Charles de LEUSSE:

    Death comes so fast that sometimes it misses us. (La mort arrive si vite Que des fois elle nous rate)

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