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Definition: Obituary |
ObituaryNoun1. A notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "obituary" was first used: 1706. (references) |
Etymology: Obituary \O*bit"u*a*ry\, noun; plural Obituaries. [Compare to the French expression obituaire. See Obit.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of writing an obituary, denotes that unpleasant and discordant duties will devolve upon you. If you read one, news of a distracting nature will soon reach you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | A usu. short account of the significant aspects and accomplishments of a person's life published (as in a newspaper) upon the person's death. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An obituary is a notice of the death of a person, usually published in a newspaper and usually including a short biography.The obituary usually ends with the name of the subject's wife/husband and their children.
Because of the short time between the notification of a death and the next publication deadline, most newspapers have pre-written obituaries for famous people who are still alive. Updating the "obits" is hum-drum task usually given to junior reporters.
Stories abound of obituaries accidentally published whilst the person concerned was still alive. One of the best known examples was Mark Twain, who responded "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated".
See also: recent deaths
External link
- The Smoking Gun: CNN.com Premature obituaries
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Obituary."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Obituary is a death metal band featuring John Tardy on vocals, Allen West on lead guitar, Trevor Peres on rhythm guitar, Frank Watkins on bass, and Donald Tardy on drums. They started their career as Xecutioner in 1984 and still remain one of the most influential bands in the genre.
Cover of 'Cause Of Death' (1990)Discography
Slowly We Rot (1989, re-released in 1997)
Cause Of Death (1990, re-released in 1997)
The End Complete (1992, re-released in 1998)
Don't Care (1994, U.S. only single)
World Demise (1994, re-released in 1998)
Back From The Dead (1997)
Dead (1998, live)
Anthology (2001, best-of album)
Cover of 'The End Complete' (1992)External Links
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/obituary/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Obituary (band)."
Synonyms: ObituarySynonyms: necrology (n), obit (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Death | Necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song. (lamentation). |
Description | Historiography, chronography; historic Muse, Clio; history; biography, autobiography; necrology, obituary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Obituary |
| English words defined with "obituary": Obituaries, Obituarily, Obiyuary. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "obituary": DIRECTOR, FUNERAL ♦ embalmer assistant ♦ funeral-home attendant ♦ manager, funeral home, MORTUARY BEAUTICIAN ♦ PUNCH. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I used to look in the papers every day for your obituary. (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) I was reading the obituary column today and there was this woman--you won't believe this, but. She left all of her money to a dog (Women in Revolt; writing credit: Paul Morrissey) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Obituary (1993) | |
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Quentin Crisp | An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. |
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| "Obituary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.79% of the time. "Obituary" is used about 202 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 70.79% | 143 | 26,451 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.83% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.41% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (common) | 2.97% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 202 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "obituary": obituary notice. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "obituary": post-obituary. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
obituary | 7,130 | obituary wisconsin | 70 |
obituary search | 214 | arizona obituary | 70 |
newspaper obituary | 212 | indiana obituary | 70 |
florida obituary | 157 | obituary pennsylvania | 66 |
celebrity obituary | 152 | connecticut obituary | 62 |
new obituary orleans | 150 | maryland obituary | 58 |
chicago tribune obituary | 144 | washington post obituary | 57 |
online obituary | 120 | philadelphia obituary | 56 |
obituary ohio | 120 | massachusetts obituary | 55 |
california obituary | 116 | georgia obituary | 53 |
obituary archive | 113 | national obituary | 53 |
michigan obituary | 110 | nj obituary | 53 |
obituary texas | 109 | free obituary press winnipeg | 52 |
new jersey obituary | 106 | arkansas obituary | 51 |
chicago obituary | 87 | kentucky obituary | 51 |
illinois obituary | 85 | write an obituary | 50 |
old obituary | 82 | hartford courant obituary | 49 |
obituary oklahoma | 80 | north carolina obituary | 49 |
new york obituary | 77 | free obituary search | 46 |
boston globe obituary | 74 | archive newspaper obituary | 46 |
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| Language | Translations for "obituary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vdekjeje, nekrologjik, nekrologji (necrologue, necrology, obit), lajmërim vdekjeje. (various references) | |
Arabic | سجل الوفيات (necrology). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | списък на умрелите, синодик, некролог (necrologue, necrology), погребален (funeral, funerary, funereal, mortuary, obsequial, sepulchral). (various references) | |
Chinese | 讣文 (Obituaries). (various references) | |
Czech | parte, nekrolog (necrologies, necrology), úmrtní oznámení. (various references) | |
Dutch | necrologie. (various references) | |
Esperanto | nekrologo. (various references) | |
Farsi | وابسته به وفات , اگهی درگذشت . (various references) | |
Finnish | vainajien luettelo (death roll), nekrologi (death roll), muistosanat, kuolleiden kirja (death roll). (various references) | |
French | nécrologie (obituaries). (various references) | |
German | nachruf, Todesanzeige (death notice, obituary notice), Sterbeanzeige, Nekrolog (necrology). (various references) | |
Greek | νεκρολογία (necrology). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "ו"ע" על פטיר". (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyászjelentés (necrology, obituarist), nekrológ (necrology). (various references) | |
Italian | necrologio (necrology). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 'い で囲まれた死亡広告 (a black-bordered obituary), 死亡記事 (obituary notice). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しぼうきじ (obituary notice). (various references) | |
Manx | rolley ny merriu (obituary list), fogrey baaish (obituary notice). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obituaryay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | necrologia (necrologue, necrology). (various references) | |
Romanian | necrolog (necrology, obituary notice), lipsã de morţi, anunţuri mortuare. (various references) | |
Russian | некролог (necrologue, necrology). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | posmrtnica, posmrtni (post mortem, posthumous), pogrebni (funeral, funereal, mortuary, obsequial, obsequious), čitulja. (various references) | |
Spanish | obituario, nota necrológica, necrología (necrology), necrológico (necrologic). (various references) | |
Swedish | dödsruna (death roll), nekrolog (necrologue). (various references) | |
Thai | การประกาศข่าวมร"กรรม (obit). (various references) | |
Turkish | anma yazısı, ölen ile ilgili, ölüm ilânı (obituary notice), ölüm (bitter end, capital, deadly, death, decease, demise, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, end, ending, exit, killing, kiss off, last, latter end, longed-for rest, mortuary, necro-, passing, passing away, quietus, rest, sleep, the great divide, the grim reaper, the reaper, tomb). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | граматка (necrology), некрологічний (epitaphic, epitaphical, necrologic), некролог (necrologue, necrology, obitual), зв'язаний з похороном, похоронний (exequial, feral, funeral, funereal, mortuary, obitual, obsequial, sepulchral), поминальна книга, поминальник (necrology), поминальний список. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lời cáo phó sơ lược tiểu sử người chết. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | obitus. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Obituary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: obitary, obitaury, obituarie, obitur, obiturary, obituray, obitury. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "obituary" (pronounced ōbi"khuwe'rē) |
| 5 | -kh uw e' r ē | estuary, mortuary, sanctuary, statuary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, Dewberry, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, ordinary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-o-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: rubati, rubato, tabour. | |
-3 letters: abort, about, bayou, biota, boart, borty, boyar, bruit, orbit, outby, ratio, tabor, turbo, urbia, yurta. | |
-4 letters: abri, abut, airt, airy, arty, auto, bait, boar, boat, bora, bort, bota, bout, brat, bray, brio, brit, brut, buoy, bura, bury, iota, obia, obit, orby, rato, riot, rota, roti, rout, ruby, ryot, tabu. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-o-r-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: incubatory. | |
+3 letters: ablutionary. | |
+4 letters: ambulatorily, binocularity, subnormality, unprofitably. | |
+5 letters: autobiography, equilibratory, insupportably, mycobacterium, subordinately, subventionary, unworkability. | |
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