Usually means: Preserved body wrapped in bandages.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. mummy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mummy: Merriam-Webster
  3. mummy, mummy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mummy, mummy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mummy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mummy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mummy, mummy: Wordnik
  8. mummy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Mummy, mummy: Wiktionary
  10. mummy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mummy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mummy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mummy, mummy: Dictionary.com
  14. mummy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mummy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mummy (disambiguation), Mummy (monster), Mummy (undead), Mummy, The Mummy (TV series), The Mummy (Universal film franchise), The Mummy (film series), The Mummy (franchise), The Mummy (novel), The Mummy (video game), The Mummy, The Mummy, The mummy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mummy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mummy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mummy: Rhymezone
  20. mummy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mummy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. mummy: FreeDictionary.org
  23. mummy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mummy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mummy (corpse), The Mummy (disambiguation), The Mummy (film), mummy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. mummy: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  4. mummy: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mummy, mummy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Mummy, mummy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mummies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) An embalmed human or non-human animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes.
noun:  (countable, by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a stock character in horror films.
noun:  (countable, by extension) Any naturally preserved human or non-human animal body.
noun:  (uncountable, now rare) A pulp.
noun:  (uncountable, medicine, now historical) A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.
noun:  (uncountable, horticulture, obsolete) A sort of wax used in grafting.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To mummify.
noun:  (chiefly UK, New England, usually childish) mother.
noun:  (colloquial, childish) One's mother.

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