Obituary

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Obituary \O*bit"u*a*ry\, a. [See {Obit}.]
     Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons; as, an
     obituary notice; obituary poetry.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  obituary \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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Especially: A notice of the death of a person, published
        in a newspaper or other periodical, accompanied by a
        biographical sketch which may be brief ro extended; as,
        the funeral director arranged placed an obituary in the
        local papaer.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     3. pl. The section of a newspaper in which obituaries[2] are
        printed; as, I saw the notice of his death in the
        obituaries.
        [PJC]
  
     4. (R. C. Ch.) A list of the dead, or a register of
        anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  obituary
       n : a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short
           biography [syn: {obit}, {necrology}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  120 Moby Thesaurus words for "obituary":
     Clio, Muse of history, 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, 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, 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