Meaning of OBITUARY
| Pronunciation: | | ow'bichoo`eree
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [n] a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography |
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| | Synonyms: | | necrology, obit |
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| | See Also: | | announcement, promulgation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \O*bit"u*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Obituaries}. [Cf. F.
obituaire. See {Obit}.]
1. That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or
death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person;
a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a
biographical sketch.
2. (R.C.Ch.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary
days when service is performed for the dead.
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Seeing or reading an obituary in your dream, represents the end to your old attitudes and outdated beliefs. |
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| | Related Terms: | | adventures, annals, arch, archival, autobiography, barrow, bill of mortality, biographical sketch, biography, body count, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, case history, casualty list, cenotaph, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, cinerary, Clio, column, confessions, cromlech, cross, cup, curriculum vitae, cyclolith, death roll, diary, dirgelike, dismal, documental, documentary, documentational, dolmen, epigraphic, epitaphic, eulogy, exequial, experiences, feral, footstone, fortunes, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, grave, gravestone, hagiography, hagiology, headstone, historiography, history, hoarstone, inscription, journal, legend, life, life and letters, life story, marker, martyrology, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, memorials, menhir, monolith, monument, mortuary, mortuary roll, mound, mournful, Muse of history, necrological, necrologue, necrology, obelisk, obit, obsequial, photobiography, pillar, plaque, prize, profile, pyramid, record, register of deaths, reliquary, remembrance, resume, ribbon, rostral column, sepulchral, shaft, shrine, stela, stone, story, stupa, tablet, testimonial, theory of history, tomb, tombstone, tope, trophy |
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