Mortuary - English meaning

Mortuary – definitions in English dictionary

noun
A room or building in which dead bodies are kept, for hygienic storage or for examination, until burial or cremation.
Usage examples:
He also introduced a rickshaw service, which takes unclaimed bodies from the government mortuary fo…
Synonims:
Morgue Funeral parlour Funeral chapel Funeral home Chapel of rest Charnel house Dead house Lych-house

adjective
Relating to burial or tombs.
Usage examples:
Mortuary rituals

noun
A funeral home

Mortuary translation into English

Mortuary: translate from English into Chinese

太平间, 停尸间, 葬礼的

Mortuary: translate from English into Dutch

Mortuarium, Lijkenhuis, Lijkenhuisje, Graf-, Begrafenis-, Sterf-, Lijk-

Mortuary: translate from English into French

Mortuaire, Morgue, Dépôt mortuaire

Mortuary: translate from English into German

Leichenhalle

Mortuary: translate from English into Hindi

शवगृह, मुर्दाघर, समाधिवाला, शवागार, दफ़न का, दफ़नाने का, लाशघर, लाश-घर

Mortuary: translate from English into Italian

Camera mortuaria, Mortuario, Obitorio

Mortuary: translate from English into Korean

시체 임시 안치소, 장례 회관, 병원 따위의 시체 임시 안치소, 죽음의

Mortuary: translate from English into Russian

Морг, Погребальный, Похоронный, Покойницкая

Mortuary: translate from English into Spanish

Mortuorio, Morgue, Funeraria, Depósito de cadáveres

Word origin

late Middle English (denoting a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate): from Latin mortuarius, from mortuus ‘dead’. The current noun sense dates from the mid 19th ce

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Mortuary – similar words

mortuaries

noun
A room or building in which dead bodies are kept, for hygienic storage or for examination, until burial or cremation.
Usage examples:
He also introduced a rickshaw service, which takes unclaimed bodies from the government mortuary fo…

adjective
Relating to burial or tombs.
Usage examples:
Mortuary rituals

noun
A funeral home

Mortuaries - all meanings in English

Mortuary synonims

morgue

noun
A mortuary.
Usage examples:
The cadavers were bagged and removed to the city morgue

noun
A building, or a room in a hospital, where dead bodies are kept to be examined or until buried

Morgue - all meanings in English

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