Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun decedent

1 sense of decedent

Sense 1
dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed -- (someone who is no longer alive; "I wonder what the dead person would have done")
       => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul -- (a human being; "there was too much for one person to do")