Associations to the word «Decedent»

Wiktionary

DECEDENT, noun. (legal) (chiefly US) A dead person.
DECEDENT, adjective. Removing; departing.

Dictionary definition

DECEDENT, noun. Someone who is no longer alive; "I wonder what the dead person would have done".

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates