Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A dead person.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Going away; departing; seceding.
  • noun A deceased person.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A deceased person.
  • adjective Removing; departing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law A dead person.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who is no longer alive

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin dēcēdēns, dēcēdent-, present participle of dēcēdere, to depart, die; see decease.]

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From Latin decedens, present active participle of decedere ("to depart, die").

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