English-Thai Dictionary

mortality

N ภาวะ ที่ ต้องตา ย  dying fetality pa-wa-ti-tong-tai

 

mortality

N อัตราการตาย  จำนวน ผู้ตาย  death rate ad-tra-kan-tai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MORTALITY

n.[L. mortalitas.] Subjection to death or the necessity of dying. When I saw her die,
I then did think on your mortality.
1. Death.
Gladly would I meet
Mortality, my sentence.
2. Frequency of death; actual death of great numbers of men or beasts; as a time of great mortality.
3. Human nature.
Take these tears, mortality's relief.
4. Power of destruction.
Mortality and mercy in Vienna,
Live in thy tongue and heart.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MORTALITY

Mor *tal "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. mortalitas: cf. F. mortalité. ]

 

1. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew.

 

2. Human life; the life of a mortal being. From this instant There 's nothing serious in mortality. Shak.

 

3. Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature. Take these tears, mortality's relief. Pope.

 

4. Death; destruction. Shak.

 

5. The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming. Bill of mortality. See under Bill. -- Law of mortality, a mathematical relation between the numbers living at different ages, so that from a given large number of persons alive at one age, it can be computed what number are likely to survive a given number of years. -- Table of mortality, a table exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

mortality

mor tal i ty |môrˈtalətē mɔrˈtælədi | ▶noun ( pl. mortalities ) 1 the state of being subject to death: the work is increasingly haunted by thoughts of mortality. 2 death, esp. on a large scale: the causes of mortality among infants and young children. • (also mortality rate ) the number of deaths in a given area or period, or from a particular cause: postoperative mortality was 90 percent for some operations. ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French from Latin mortalitas, from mortalis (see mortal ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

mortality

mor ¦tal |ity |mɔːˈtalɪti | ▶noun ( pl. mortalities ) [ mass noun ] 1 the state of being subject to death: the work is increasingly haunted by thoughts of mortality. 2 death, especially on a large scale: the causes of mortality among infants and young children. • (also mortality rate ) the number of deaths in a given area or period, or from a particular cause: post-operative mortality was 90 per cent for some operations. ORIGIN late Middle English: via Old French from Latin mortalitas, from mortalis (see mortal ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

mortality

mortality noun 1 a sense of his own mortality: impermanence, transience, ephemerality, perishability; humanity; corporeality. 2 the causes of mortality: death, loss of life, dying.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

mortality

mortality noun 1 her death filled him with a sense of his own mortality: impermanence, temporality, transience, ephemerality, impermanency, perishability; humanity; corporeality, earthliness; rare corporality. ANTONYMS immortality. 2 the causes of mortality among infants and young children: death, loss of life, dying.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

mortality

mor tal i ty /mɔː r tǽləti /名詞 U 1 〖時にa ～〗(特定の集団の )死亡率 (mortality rate , death rate )▸ a high [low ] infant mortality 高い [低い ]幼児死亡率 2 〖時にa ～〗(戦争などによる )大量死 ; 死亡者数 .3 死ぬべき運命, 死を免れないこと (↔immortality ).4 〖集合的に 〗人類 .～́ t à ble 〘保険 〙(年齢別に表示した )死亡率表 .