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Mordecai

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈmɔː(ɹ)dəkaɪ̯//

One of the main personalities in the Book of Esther. He adopted and raised his cousin Esther and foiled a plot to assassinate the king.

proper noun

  1. 1

    One of the main personalities in the Book of Esther. He adopted and raised his cousin Esther and foiled a plot to assassinate the king.

  2. 2

    A male given name.

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew מָרְדֳּכַי (mordocháy).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).