What does morgue mean?
Definitions for morgue
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Princeton's WordNet
morgue, mortuary, dead roomnoun
a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
GCIDE
Morguenoun
(Newspapers) A room containing reference files of older material in a newspaper office; also, the material contained in such a room.
Morguenoun
A place where the bodies of dead persons are kept, until they are identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.
Wiktionary
morguenoun
A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
morguenoun
A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation.
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
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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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
Morguenoun
a place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse
Etymology: [F.]
Wikidata
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
Morgue
morg, n. a place where bodies found dead are laid out for identification. [Fr.]
Morgue
morg, n. hauteur. [Fr.]
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Morgue
a house in which bodies found dead are placed for identification.
The Roycroft Dictionary
morgue
The pantheon of the unremembered; Death's shop-window.
Etymology and Origins
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
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of morgue in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of morgue in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of morgue in a Sentence
True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
We have 7 confirmed dead, 4 adults and 3 kids, who were already taken to the morgue.
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.
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.
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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Translations for morgue
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- dodehuis, lykhuisAfrikaans
- مشرحةArabic
- dipòsit de cadàversCatalan, Valencian
- márniceCzech
- morgueDanish
- Leichenhaus, LeichenschauhausGerman
- νεκροθάλαμος, νεκροτομείοGreek
- depósito de cadáveres, morgueSpanish
- ruumishuoneFinnish
- líkhúsFaroese
- morgueFrench
- marbhlannIrish
- मुर्दाघरHindi
- hullaházHungarian
- դիարանArmenian
- líkhúsIcelandic
- obitorio, camera mortuariaItalian
- 霊安所, 遺体安置所, 霊安室Japanese
- ផ្ទះសពKhmer
- mortuāriumLatin
- lavoninėLithuanian
- mortuariumDutch
- kostnicaPolish
- morgă, cameră mortuarăRomanian
- моргRussian
- mrtvačnica, мртвачницаSerbo-Croatian
- márnicaSlovak
- mrtvašnicaSlovene
- bårhusSwedish
- mochariSwahili
- morgTurkish
- مردہ خانےUrdu
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