mort
/mɔɹt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.07 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
Informal
noun
Example Sentences
- "If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword."
- "The sportsman then sounded a treble mort."
- "a mort of water"
- "Full o’ sut this chimney is. Ain’t been swep’ for a mort o’ years I reckon."
- "1937 (written, first published in 1949), J. R. R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham As it was, he still had a mort of treasure at home in his cave."
- "Male gypsies all, not a mort among them."
Etymology
From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mɔɹt/
- British English: /mɔːt/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage
- Informal
- Obsolete