Usually means: Subject to death; not immortal.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. mortal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mortal, mortal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mortal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mortal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mortal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mortal, mortal: Wordnik
  7. mortal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mortal: Wiktionary
  9. mortal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mortal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mortal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mortal: Dictionary.com
  13. mortal (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mortal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. MortaL (streamer), Mortal (band), Mortal (film), Mortal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mortal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mortal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mortal: Rhymezone
  19. mortal, mortal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mortal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Mortal: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. mortal: Free Dictionary
  23. mortal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mortal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. mortal: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mortal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mortal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. mortal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mortal: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mortal: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mortal, mortal, mortal, mortal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extreme Martial Arts Glosary (No longer online)

(Note: See mortals as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
adjective:  Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
adjective:  Punishable by death.
adjective:  Fatally vulnerable.
adjective:  Of or relating to the time of death.
adjective:  Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
adjective:  Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
adjective:  Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
adjective:  (Scotland, Geordie, slang) Very drunk.
adjective:  (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death.
noun:  A human; someone susceptible to death.
adverb:  (colloquial) Mortally; enough to cause death.

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