Usually means: No longer living; has died.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word deceased:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. deceased, the deceased: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deceased: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deceased: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deceased: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deceased: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deceased, deceased, the deceased: Wordnik
  7. deceased, the deceased: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deceased: Wiktionary
  9. deceased: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deceased: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deceased: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deceased, the deceased: Dictionary.com
  13. deceased: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Deceased (band), Deceased: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Deceased: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. deceased: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. deceased: Rhymezone
  18. deceased: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. deceased: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. deceased, the deceased: Free Dictionary
  21. deceased: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Deceased: The Word Detective
  23. The deceased, deceased: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. deceased: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. deceased, the deceased: Legal dictionary
  4. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deceased: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deceased: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  2. deceased: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. deceased: Genealogy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deceased (noun), deceased: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See decease as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  No longer alive; dead.
adjective:  Belonging to the dead.
adjective:  (law) One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used. In criminal law, "the deceased" refers to the victim of a homicide.
adjective:  (hyperbolic) Overwhelmed to the point of being figuratively dead.
noun:  (euphemistic) Synonym of dead (“those who have died”).
noun:  (law) One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used in US English. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.

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