Usually means: Person who has passed away.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word decedent:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. decedent: Merriam-Webster
  2. decedent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decedent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decedent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decedent: Vocabulary.com
  6. decedent: Wordnik
  7. decedent: Wiktionary
  8. decedent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. decedent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. decedent: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. decedent: Dictionary.com
  12. Decedent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Decedent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. decedent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. decedent: Rhymezone
  16. Decedent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. decedent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. DECEDENT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. decedent: FreeDictionary.org
  20. decedent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. decedent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. decedent: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. decedent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. decedent: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. MSN Money (No longer online)
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. decedent: Legal dictionary
  12. decedent: Financial dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. decedent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. decedent: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. decedent: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology
  2. DECEDENT, DECEDENT, DECEDENT: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

(Note: See decedents as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (decedent)

noun:  (law, chiefly US) A dead person.
adjective:  Removing; departing; deceased.

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