mortuary
mortuaries
A mortuary is a room or area, often in a hospital, where dead bodies are kept. You can also use the word mortuary to talk about a funeral home.
When a person dies in a hospital, his body is usually moved to a mortuary before an autopsy takes place. A mortuary is also where a body is kept until it's buried or cremated. Another word for a mortuary is a morgue, which is more commonly used in the United States. In the 1500's, mortuary was used as an adjective meaning "pertaining to death," from the Latin root word mortuus, or "dead."
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a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
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types:
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crematorium, crematory
a mortuary where corpses are cremated
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funeral chapel, funeral church, funeral home, funeral parlor, funeral parlour, funeral-residence
a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects
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crematorium, crematory
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of or relating to or characteristic of death
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of or relating to a funeral
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