English Dictionary

mummy

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmʌmi/

名詞

可算名詞 広義 古語 不可算名詞 歴史的 廃用

(countable) An embalmed human or animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes.

日本語の意味

ミイラ（古代エジプトなどで行われた防腐処理により、リネン布で包まれた保存された死体）

The museum displayed an ancient mummy that had been preserved for thousands of years.

博物館は何千年も保存されてきた古代のミイラを展示していた。

意味（1）

(countable) An embalmed human or animal corpse wrapped in linen bandages for burial, especially as practised by the ancient Egyptians and some Native American tribes.

[…] Mr. Pearson proceeds to give a particular description of the very perfect mummy of an Ibis, which forms the chief subject of the present paper.

意味（2）

(countable, by extension) A reanimated embalmed human corpse, as a typical character in horror films.

For many, mummies fascinate more than repel. Our horrific connotations lie not so much with the mummy itself, but in associated fears. The mummy serves, of course, as a general reminder of our own mortality and our fear of death, but this alone is not enough to make it a monster.

意味（3）

(countable, by extension) Any naturally preserved human or animal body.

意味（4）

(countable, uncountable, now rare) A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.

'Mummy,' that is pounded ancient Egyptian, is, I believe, a pigment much used by artists, and especially by those of them who direct their talents to the reproduction of the works of the old masters.

意味（5）

(uncountable, now rare) A pulp.

Going up to him, therefore, he laid hold on his lance, and breaking it, began to thresh him so severely, that, in spite of the resistance of his armour, he was almost beaten into mummy […] .

意味（6）

(uncountable, medicine, now historical) A substance used in medicine, prepared from mummified flesh.

Yet another scatological medicament was obtained from mummy, the material derived from a dried or embalmed human corpse, the most valuable being that imported from Mizraim (ancient Egypt).

意味（7）

(uncountable, horticulture, obsolete) A sort of wax used in grafting.

mummies （ plural ）