Mortuary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A place, especially a funeral home, where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation.
  • adj. Of or relating to burial practices.
  • adj. Relating to or characteristic of death.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. of, or relating to death or a funeral; funereal
  • n. a place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation
  • n. a morgue
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
  • n. A burial place; a place for the dead.
  • n. A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
  • n. A funeral home.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the dead.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the burial of the dead.
  • n. In law, a sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by and due to the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
  • n. A burial-place.
  • n. A place for the temporary reception of the dead; a dead-house.
  • n. A memorial of the death of some beloved or revered person; especially, in the seventeenth century, a sword bearing some emblem of the wearer's devotion to the memory of Charles I. and the cause of royalty.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of or relating to or characteristic of death
  • adj. of or relating to a funeral
  • n. a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    building    edifice   
    Cross Reference
    mortuary chaplet    mortuary chest   
    Variant
    funeral home   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deadhouse    morgue    dead house   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    funerary    morgue    sepulchral    rock-cut    votive   
     
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