English words for 'Relating to obituaries.'
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adj
noun
- a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
- (historical) A register of deaths, especially one maintained by a religious institution; a necrology.
- A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete), the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published.
- (figurative) An announcement or description of the end of something.
- (by extension) A brief biography of a person (especially one who is well-known) who has recently died, usually describing their life and achievements, particularly in the form of an article in a news publication or an item in a news broadcast.
noun
verb
noun
- The extant writings of a deceased person.
- The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
- Historical or archaeological relics.
- (rare) plural of remain
- All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
- any object that is left unused or still extant
- the dead body of a human being
- a relic that has been excavated from the soil
verb
adj
- In reference to a work, published after the author's death.
- After the death of someone.
- Taking place after one's own death.
- In reference to a musical opus, published or initially performed after the composer's death.
- (originally) Born after the death of one's father.
- occurring or coming into existence after a person's death
adj
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- Punishable by death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- (Scotland, Geordie, slang) Very drunk.
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
- causing or capable of causing death
- subject to death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- unrelenting and deadly
adv
noun
prep_phrase
adj
adv
noun
adj
adv
adj
adj
noun
- a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
- A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation; broadly, synonym of funeral home.
- (historical) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
noun
- Death (literary)
- A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
- (loosely) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
- One who keeps secrets.
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
verb
noun
- death of a person
- a mark (‘) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
- (loosely) Any place of interment.
- (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.
- (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.
- (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.
- A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
adj
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- Low in pitch, tone etc.
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
verb
noun
- The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.
- A promise or pledge; a guarantee.
- The act of one who undertakes (in either sense).
- That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
- the trade of a funeral director
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
verb
noun
adj
- (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
- (business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.
- (computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
- No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
- having ceased to exist or live
- no longer in force or use; inactive
verb
noun
- a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
- A listing of people who have died during a specific period of time.
- a list of people who died recently
- (church history) A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died.
- (uncountable) The study of death or the dead.
- A notice of death.
adj
- (informal) Dead, deceased.
- (nautical) Keeping upright.
- (informal) Expensive, pricey.
- (of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- (professional wrestling, of a strike) Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
- (of muscles or parts of the body) Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- (of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Potent.
- (golf) Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- (slang, of the penis) Erect.
- (mathematics) Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- (figurative, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
- (cooking, of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect
- strong, vigorous
- rigidly formal
- not moving or operating freely
- incapable of or resistant to bending
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- very drunk
adv
noun
- (prison slang) A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
- (slang) A cadaver; a dead person.
- (slang) A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- (slang, chiefly Canada, US) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
- (slang) A flop; a commercial failure.
- (US, slang, by extension) A customer who does not leave a tip.
- (US, slang) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- (finance, slang) Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
- (blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
- the dead body of a human being
- an ordinary man
verb
noun
- Initialism of post mortem.
- Initialism of project manager.
- Initialism of prime minister.
- Initialism of product manager.
- Initialism of portfolio manager.
- Initialism of postmaster.
- Initialism of push money.
- Initialism of program manager.
- Initialism of perfect match.
- Initialism of pilot monitoring.
- Initialism of performance management.
- (knitting) Initialism of place marker.
- Initialism of price match.
- (Internet) Initialism of personal message.
- Initialism of private message.
- Initialism of project management.
- (electronics) Initialism of permanent magnet.
- Initialism of precious metal.
- Initialism of particulate matter; followed by a subscripted number representing the size of the particles in micrometres (μm).
- the period between noon and midnight
- modulation of the phase of the carrier wave
- an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
- the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom
adv
phrase
verb
noun
name
adv
noun
- Death.
- (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
- An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
- Destiny, especially terrible.
- Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
phrase
verb
noun
- Death.
- Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]
- An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]
- The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.]
- A person killed.
- That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]
- (video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
- a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
- the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
prefix
adj
- occurring at the time of death
- immediately past
- conclusive in a process or progression
- coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
- most unlikely or unsuitable
- highest in extent or degree
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- not to be altered or undone
- lowest in rank or importance
- Lowest in rank or degree.
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
noun
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
- holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
- (shoemaking) A tool in the form of a foot on which an item of footwear (such as a boot or shoe) is placed for shaping while it is being manufactured or repaired.
adv
verb
- persist for a specified period of time
- continue to live and avoid dying
- (transitive, shoemaking) To shape (an item of footwear such as a boot or shoe) during its manufacture or repair while it is placed on a last (noun etymology 3 sense 1).
- (intransitive, slang, of a man) To purposefully refrain from orgasm
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
det
- (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
- The (one) immediately before the present.
noun
- an inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death
- A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death
- An inquiry, typically into an undesired outcome
- The jury hearing such an inquiry, and the result of the inquiry
- (by extension, criminal law, Philippines) Prosecutorial proceeding on whether or not a warrantless arrestee is charged with an offense.
noun
verb
noun
- The extant writings of a deceased person.
- The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
- Historical or archaeological relics.
- (rare) plural of remain
- All that is left of the stock of some things; remnants.
- any object that is left unused or still extant
- the dead body of a human being
- a relic that has been excavated from the soil
verb
noun
- Death (literary)
- A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
- (loosely) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
- One who keeps secrets.
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
verb
noun
- death of a person
- a mark (‘) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
- (loosely) Any place of interment.
- (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.
- (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.
- (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.
- A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
adj
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- Low in pitch, tone etc.
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
verb
noun
- The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.
- A promise or pledge; a guarantee.
- The act of one who undertakes (in either sense).
- That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
- the trade of a funeral director
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
verb
noun
adj
- (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
- (business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.
- (computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
- No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
- having ceased to exist or live
- no longer in force or use; inactive
verb
adj
noun
- a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
- (historical) A register of deaths, especially one maintained by a religious institution; a necrology.
- A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete), the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published.
- (figurative) An announcement or description of the end of something.
- (by extension) A brief biography of a person (especially one who is well-known) who has recently died, usually describing their life and achievements, particularly in the form of an article in a news publication or an item in a news broadcast.
noun
- a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
- A listing of people who have died during a specific period of time.
- a list of people who died recently
- (church history) A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died.
- (uncountable) The study of death or the dead.
- A notice of death.
noun
- Initialism of post mortem.
- Initialism of project manager.
- Initialism of prime minister.
- Initialism of product manager.
- Initialism of portfolio manager.
- Initialism of postmaster.
- Initialism of push money.
- Initialism of program manager.
- Initialism of perfect match.
- Initialism of pilot monitoring.
- Initialism of performance management.
- (knitting) Initialism of place marker.
- Initialism of price match.
- (Internet) Initialism of personal message.
- Initialism of private message.
- Initialism of project management.
- (electronics) Initialism of permanent magnet.
- Initialism of precious metal.
- Initialism of particulate matter; followed by a subscripted number representing the size of the particles in micrometres (μm).
- the period between noon and midnight
- modulation of the phase of the carrier wave
- an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
- the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom
adv
phrase
verb
noun
name
adv
noun
- Death.
- (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
- An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
- Destiny, especially terrible.
- Dread; a feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness, or despair.
- an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
phrase
verb
noun
- Death.
- Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. [from 17th c.]
- An accident that causes death. [from 19th c.]
- The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from 17th c.]
- A person killed.
- That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from 18th c.]
- (video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
- a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
- the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
noun
- an inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death
- A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death
- An inquiry, typically into an undesired outcome
- The jury hearing such an inquiry, and the result of the inquiry
- (by extension, criminal law, Philippines) Prosecutorial proceeding on whether or not a warrantless arrestee is charged with an offense.
adj
adv
adj
adv
noun
adj
noun
- a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
- (historical) A register of deaths, especially one maintained by a religious institution; a necrology.
- A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete), the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published.
- (figurative) An announcement or description of the end of something.
- (by extension) A brief biography of a person (especially one who is well-known) who has recently died, usually describing their life and achievements, particularly in the form of an article in a news publication or an item in a news broadcast.
adj
- In reference to a work, published after the author's death.
- After the death of someone.
- Taking place after one's own death.
- In reference to a musical opus, published or initially performed after the composer's death.
- (originally) Born after the death of one's father.
- occurring or coming into existence after a person's death
adj
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- Punishable by death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- (Scotland, Geordie, slang) Very drunk.
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
- causing or capable of causing death
- subject to death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- unrelenting and deadly
adv
noun
adj
adv
noun
adj
adv
adj
adj
noun
- a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
- A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation; broadly, synonym of funeral home.
- (historical) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
adj
- (informal) Dead, deceased.
- (nautical) Keeping upright.
- (informal) Expensive, pricey.
- (of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- (professional wrestling, of a strike) Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
- (of muscles or parts of the body) Painful or more rigid than usual as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- (of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Potent.
- (golf) Of a shot, landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- (slang, of the penis) Erect.
- (mathematics) Of an equation, for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- (figurative, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- (colloquial) Harsh, severe.
- (cooking, of whipping cream or egg whites) Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect
- strong, vigorous
- rigidly formal
- not moving or operating freely
- incapable of or resistant to bending
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
- very drunk
adv
noun
- (prison slang) A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
- (slang) A cadaver; a dead person.
- (slang) A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- (slang, chiefly Canada, US) An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
- (slang) A flop; a commercial failure.
- (US, slang, by extension) A customer who does not leave a tip.
- (US, slang) A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- (finance, slang) Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
- (blackjack) Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
- the dead body of a human being
- an ordinary man
verb
adj
- occurring at the time of death
- immediately past
- conclusive in a process or progression
- coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
- most unlikely or unsuitable
- highest in extent or degree
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- not to be altered or undone
- lowest in rank or importance
- Lowest in rank or degree.
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
noun
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
- holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
- (shoemaking) A tool in the form of a foot on which an item of footwear (such as a boot or shoe) is placed for shaping while it is being manufactured or repaired.
adv
verb
- persist for a specified period of time
- continue to live and avoid dying
- (transitive, shoemaking) To shape (an item of footwear such as a boot or shoe) during its manufacture or repair while it is placed on a last (noun etymology 3 sense 1).
- (intransitive, slang, of a man) To purposefully refrain from orgasm
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
det
- (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
- The (one) immediately before the present.