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Definition: Mortuary |
MortuaryAdjective1. Of or relating to or characteristic of death. 2. Of or relating to a funeral. Noun1. A building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mortuary" was first used: 1330. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A place where corpses are kept temporarily ; room or building where dead bodies are kept temporarily for identification or burial formalities. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | A place in which dead bodies are kept until burial. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: MortuarySynonyms: dead room (n), morgue (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Death | Stillborn; mortuary; deadly. (killing). |
Interment | Funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity; kneel, passing bell, tolling; dirge. (lamentation); cypress; orbit, dead march, muffled drum; mortuary, undertaker, mute; elegy; funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon; epitaph. |
Adjective: burried. Verb: burial, funereal, funebrial; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary; elegiac; necroscopic. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mortuary |
| English words defined with "mortuary": crematorium, crematory ♦ funeral chapel, funeral church, funeral home, funeral parlor, funeral parlour, funeral-residence ♦ Mortuaries. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mortuary": DIRECTOR, FUNERAL ♦ manager, funeral home. (references) |
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Screenplays | Come Bowers, it's time to go, this place is beginning to resemble a mortuary. (Death on the Nile; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [An exterior view of the mortuary at Evacuation Commission Hospital, Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [The mortuary at The Naval Hospital, Vladivostok]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Civil Liberties | Iran | In addition, the Government stipulated that no markers be put on individual graves and that no mortuary facilities be built on the site, making it impossible to perform a proper burial. (references) |
Economic History | Nigeria | There is no doubt about the increasing demand for medical services and equipment such as analytical and examination instruments, ultra sound scans, anesthesia equipment, mortuary and laboratory equipment. (references) |
Human Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | His corpse was discovered in an Abidjan mortuary 3 days after his arrest. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mortuary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Mortuary" is used about 134 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) | 50% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 49.25% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 134 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "mortuary": mortuary chapel ♦ Mortuary Practice ♦ mortuary urn. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "mortuary": mortuary-complex, mortuary-complexes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "mortuary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | morg (dead house, deadhouse, morgue), i përmortshëm (feral, funeral, funereal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | موتى, مستودع الجثث, قاعة الموتى, غرفة الموت (death-chamber, morgue), دفنى. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | свързан със смъртта, смъртен (capital, clayey, deadly, death, deathly, earthborn, fatal, mortal), морга (deadhouse, morgue), погребален (funeral, funerary, funereal, obituary, obsequial, sepulchral), дом на покойниците. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 太平间 (Mortuaries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | márnice (deadhouse, lych-gate, morgue), pohřební (funereal, sepulchral). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ligkapel (cadaver storage, morgue), lighus,ligkapel, lighus (cadaver storage, morgue), begravelses-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mortuarium,morgue, mortuarium (cadaver storage, morgue), morgue (cadaver storage, morgue), lijkenhuis (cadaver storage, morgue), funerair. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مرده ای , مرده شوی خانه , دفن (Burial, Interment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ruumishuone (cadaver storage, morgue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | morgue (morgue), mortuaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | leichenhalle (mortuaries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νεκροφυλακείο (charnel house, morgue), νεκροτομείο (morgue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ח"ר מתים (morgue), בית מתים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | halottasház (dead house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | rumah mayat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | obitorio (morgue, mortuaries), camera mortuaria (cadaver storage, morgue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 殯宮 (temporary imperial mortuary), 位牌 (mortuary chapel), 位牌 (Buddhist mortuary tablet), 仏前 (before the Buddha or a mortuary tablet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひ"きゅう (great poverty, temporary imperial mortuary), ぶつぜ" (before the Buddha or a mortuary tablet), いはいどう (mortuary chapel), いはい (Buddhist mortuary tablet, transgression, violation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 시체실 (Mortuaries). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ynnyd ny merriu (morgue), thie ny merriu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ortuarymay casa mortuária (cadaver storage, morgue). (various references) mortuar, morgã (arrogance, dead house, morgue, pomposity). (various references) морг (deadhouse, dead-house, morgue), похоронный (feral, funeral, funerary, funereal, obituary, obsequial). (various references) mrtvačnica (charnel house, deadhouse, morgue), mrtvački (cadaveric, cadaverous, obsequious), pogrebni (funeral, funereal, obituary, obsequial, obsequious), nadgrobni. (various references) funeraria (undertaking), depósito de cadáveres (morgue). (various references) bårhus (charnel house, morgue). (various references) morg (morgue), ölüme ait (macabre), ölüm (bitter end, capital, deadly, death, decease, demise, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, end, ending, exit, killing, kiss off, last, latter end, longed-for rest, necro-, obituary, passing, passing away, quietus, rest, sleep, the great divide, the grim reaper, the reaper, tomb). (various references) морг (dead house, morgue), похоронний (exequial, feral, funeral, funereal, obitual, obituary, obsequial, sepulchral), покійницька (dead house, morgue). (various references) nh xác (charnel-house, dead-house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Anglo-French | 1100-1600 | mortuarie. (various references) |
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"Mortuary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Macruari, montanari, Montbarey, Moratuwa, Morguard, moritura, morituri, mortary, mortury, Moytura. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mortuary" (pronounced mô"rkhuwe'rē) |
| 5 | -kh uw e' r ē | estuary, obituary, 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, 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, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, 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-m-o-r-r-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: armoury, mortary. | |
-2 letters: armory, armour, martyr, mortar, rotary. | |
-3 letters: amort, amour, armor, atomy, marry, mayor, moray, murra, murry, rumor, tarry, tryma, tumor, yurta. | |
-4 letters: army, arty, arum, atom, auto, mart, maut, mayo, moat, mora, mort, mura, murr, orra, rato, roam, roar, rota, rout, ryot, taro, tora, torr, tory, tour, tram, tray, troy, tyro, your. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-o-r-r-t-u-y" | |
+4 letters: masturbatory, overmaturity, remuneratory. | |
+5 letters: perambulatory, supermajority, temerariously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 72 74 75 61 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .-. - ..- .- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110010 01110100 01110101 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o r t u a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0072 0074 0075 0061 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4781848687678491 |
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