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obituary

Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A published notice of a death, sometimes with a brief biography of the deceased.
from The Century Dictionary.
Of or relating to the death of a person or persons: as, an obituary notice.
noun A list of the dead; also, a register of obitual anniversary days, when service is performed for the dead.
noun An account of persons deceased; notice of the death of a person, often accompanied with a brief biographical sketch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons
noun That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person.
noun 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.
noun The section of a newspaper in which obituaries{2} are printed.
noun (R. C. Ch.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A brief notice of a person’s death, as published in a newspaper.
noun A biography of a recently deceased person, written by a journalist and published in a newspaper.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Medieval Latin obituārius, (report) of death, from Latin obitus, death, from past participle of obīre, to meet, meet one's death : ob-, toward; see ob– + īre, to go; see ei- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Medieval Latin obituarius, from Latin obitus ("a going to a place, approach, usually a going down, setting (as of the sun), fall, ruin, death"), from obire ("to go or come to, usually go down, set, fall, perish, die"), from ob ("toward, to") + ire ("to go").

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obituary

noun


[搭配]VERB + OBITUARY

write
写讣文

print, publish
刊登讣告

read
读讣告


[搭配]OBITUARY + NOUN

column, page
讣告栏；讣告版

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obit·u·ary
I. \-chəˌwerē, -chər-, -ri\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Medieval Latin obituarium, from Latin obitus death + -arium
1.
a. : a record or notice of a person's death
b. : a usually short account of the significant aspects and accomplishments of a person's life published (as in a newspaper) upon the person's death
2. : something suggesting an obituary in signaling or seeming to signal the end or death of an enterprise or plan
II. adjective
: of, relating to, or recording the death of a person or persons