What does morgue mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. morgue, mortuary, dead roomnoun

    a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation

GCIDE

  1. Morguenoun

    (Newspapers) A room containing reference files of older material in a newspaper office; also, the material contained in such a room.

  2. Morguenoun

    A place where the bodies of dead persons are kept, until they are identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

Wiktionary

  1. morguenoun

    A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.

  2. morguenoun

    A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation.

  3. Etymology: From morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.

Wikipedia

  1. Morgue

    A morgue or mortuary (in a hospital or elsewhere) is a place used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification (ID), removal for autopsy, respectful burial, cremation or other methods of disposal. In modern times, corpses have customarily been refrigerated to delay decomposition.

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  1. morgue

    A morgue is a place where the bodies of dead people are kept temporarily until they are identified or claimed, or arrangements for burial or cremation are made. In medical or forensic facilities, the morgue may also serve as a location for autopsies or other procedures.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Morguenoun

    a place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse

  2. Etymology: [F.]

Wikidata

  1. Morgue

    A morgue or mortuary is used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification, or sleeping, or removal for autopsy or disposal by burial, cremation or otherwise. In modern times they have customarily been refrigerated to delay decomposition.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Morgue

    morg, n. a place where bodies found dead are laid out for identification. [Fr.]

  2. Morgue

    morg, n. hauteur. [Fr.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Morgue

    a house in which bodies found dead are placed for identification.

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. morgue

    The pantheon of the unremembered; Death's shop-window.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Morgue

    So far from denoting a mortuary, this term really means the inner wicket of a prison, where the identification marks of new arrivals are taken before they have their cells and tasks assigned to them. It is therefore not incorrectly applied to the place of public examination and identification of the unknown dead.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of morgue in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of morgue in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of morgue in a Sentence

  1. Václav Havel:

    True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

  2. Mario Cruz:

    We have 7 confirmed dead, 4 adults and 3 kids, who were already taken to the morgue.

  3. Sergio Cabanas:

    It's a river of lava that overflowed its banks and affected the El Rodeo village. There are injured, burned and dead people, we have 7 confirmed dead, 4 adults and 3 kids, who were already taken to the morgue.

  4. Anwar Kazmi:

    We are urging people to bury their dead at the earliest in view of the current heat wave and poor power situation, we have not run out of capacity at the morgue, but buried 30 unclaimed bodies this morning to create more space.

  5. Shahid Siddiqui:

    When she died, the brother was asked to put her in a bag, sew it and carry her to the morgue, and put her there. Nobody was there to help them.

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