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mortuary

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adjective

mor·​tu·​ary ˈmȯr-chə-ˌwer-ē How to pronounce mortuary (audio)
-chü-ˌer-
1
: of or relating to the burial of the dead
2
: of, relating to, or characteristic of death

mortuary

2 of 2

noun

plural mortuaries
: a place in which dead bodies are kept until burial
especially : funeral home

Synonyms

Adjective

Example Sentences

Adjective the huge department store's mortuary atmosphere in its sad, last weeks of operation
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
Nearby, Hatshepsut built a shrine to the goddess in her mortuary temple featuring four capital columns with the goddess' human face. Lola Méndez, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022 One of the prisoners who was regularly beaten there was found dead in his solitary prison cell and his body, covered by a sheet, was taken to a mortuary van, said Mr. Hlushkov. James Marson, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022 It's also obsessed with funeral rites and mortuary practices, to keep ghouls from rising out of unkempt and abandoned graves. Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 8 June 2022 The Rep’s first home theater was a converted mortuary chapel in downtown San Diego. San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2022 Fowles studied mortuary science on and off during her playing career and will eventually return to school. New York Times, 8 May 2022 His future ambitions are to offer a free hospice and mortuary service in Mogadishu and to expand the ambulance service beyond the capital, eventually catering to the entire country. New York Times, 20 May 2022 Kwok Hoi-bong, chairman of the Funeral Business Association, said that public mortuary refrigerators are so overwhelmed that temporary ones had to be installed outside the facilities. Shibani Mahtani And Theodora Yu, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2022 During his peaceful and prosperous reign, Amenhotep III built his mortuary temple in the ancient city of Thebes along the Nile River, now modern-day Luxor. David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
Noun
Mironov died in Russian custody on April 23, his family said; his remains were shipped to a mortuary in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv. Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2022 Parents were asked to come to a mortuary to identify their children. Gerald Imray, ajc, 27 June 2022 Parents were asked to come to a mortuary to identify their children. Gerald Imray, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2022 The primary funder was the Latin American Civic and Cultural Committee, a group headed by Zeferino and Julia Ramirez, a father-and-daughter duo who ran a pioneering mortuary and funeral home on the Eastside. Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022 Visitation will begin on Tuesday, May 31, at 3 p.m. followed by a rosary at 7 p.m. at the mortuary. Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 26 May 2022 The convoy escorted the body of Darin Banks, 26, on Friday from Modesto to a mortuary in his home city of Red Bluff, 125 miles north of Sacramento. Fox News, 13 May 2022 The same night, a body landed in the local mortuary with wounds all over. Supriya Sharma, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2022 Authorities have placed 50 repurposed storage containers in a parking deck near an overflowing public mortuary to house 2,300 bodies. Dan Strumpf And Elaine Yu, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

Latin mortuarius of the dead, from mortuus dead

First Known Use

Adjective

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

1865, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mortuary was in the 15th century

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