mortaladjective
uk/ˈmɔː.təl/us/ˈmɔːr.t̬əl/literary(of living things, especially people) unable to continue living for ever; having to die:
For all men are mortal.
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immortal adjective
causing death:
a mortal injury/illness
men engaged in mortal combat (= fighting until one of them dies)
figurative New computing technology dealt a mortal blow to the printing companies.
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lethal
mortal dread/fear/terror
extreme anxiety about or fear of someone or something:
We live in mortal dread of further attacks.
mortal enemy, danger, threat, etc.
a very serious and dangerous enemy, danger, threat, etc.
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- deceased
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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mortalnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmɔː.təl/us/ˈmɔːr.t̬əl/mainly humorousan ordinary person, rather than a god or a special, important, or powerful person:
The police officers guarding the door let in the celebrities, but they prevented us lesser/mere mortals from going inside.
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Ordinary people
- community
- Essex girl
- folk
- grassroots
- Jane Doe
- Joe Bloggs
- mass
- mass market
- Middle America
- multitude
- omnibus
- on the ground idiom
- popular
- popularly
- ruck
- street
- the common man idiom
- the general public
- the hoi polloi
- the man/woman in the street idiom
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