Mordecai

[ mawr-di-kahy, mawr-di-key-ahy ]

/ ˈmɔr dɪˌkaɪ, ˌmɔr dɪˈkeɪ aɪ /

noun

the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.

a male given name.

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Mordecai, a court player with an ear for intel (and a way to convey it to power), achieves some of that power.
Purim Perils: His View Is His Own|Rabbi Daniel Landes|February 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Esther and Mordecai confront a hostile host society and an implacable bureaucracy.
Purim Perils: His View Is His Own|Rabbi Daniel Landes|February 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Beside a statue of Mordecai Anielewicz, the hero of the Warsaw uprising, dripped a crude cartoon of an Auschwitz-bound train.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Vandalize Jerusalem’s Holocaust Memorial|Alex Klein|June 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
But Mordecai is not a fatalist whose creed paralyses his energies.
Expositor's Bible: Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther|Walter Adeney

Make a hard bargain with Mordecai, and ten to one but you are caught in his trap.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843|Various
Mordecai was one of those who sat in the hall of the Temple, and he knew seventy languages.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala|Various
Mordecai is an unruly specimen, and then there is Simeon, who never fails to have an answer ready.
The American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 6, June, 1889|Various
Mordecai still shambles around and worships Mrs. Harrington.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904|Lucy Maud Montgomery

British Dictionary definitions for mordecai (1 of 2)

Mordecai¹

/ (ˌmɔːdəˈkaɪ, ˈmɔːdəˌkaɪ) /

noun

Old Testament the cousin of Esther who averted a massacre of the Jews (Esther 2–9)

British Dictionary definitions for mordecai (2 of 2)

Mordecai²

/ (ˌmɔːdəˈkaɪ, ˈmɔːdəˌkaɪ) /

noun

Old Testament the cousin of Esther who averted a massacre of the Jews (Esther 2–9)

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