crematory

Examples

• All

• It leads down to the crematory.

  The Black Cat (1941)

• Studies of a crematory oven from that era point to an outsized infant mortality rate.

  Academic text (2010)

• I told you I saw her in the crematory.

  The Black Cat (1941)

• In the park outside the crematory.

  Academic text (1996)

• That's the crematory.

  The Black Cat (1941)

• A 14th-century crematory urn.

  Pillow Talk (1959)

• At the festival's end, the crematory embers may yield a few charred, blistering potatoes or chestnuts.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The first municipal incinerator was constructed in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1885, and other cities soon followed by building "crematories" for their MSW.

  Academic text (1993)

• The family held a memorial service at the crematory before the cremation took place.

• After the funeral, they transported the body to the crematory for cremation.

Synonyms

C

crematorium

vscrematory

15 7.4

A building where people burn dead bodies

is the same in meaning but a different form of the word

C

cremation chamber

vscrematory

1 6.2

A hot oven or room where a dead body is burned to ashes

is a broader location that includes the burning equipment and other facilities

C

cremator

vscrematory

1 7.5

A furnace that burns things like waste or bodies into ashes

is used specifically for dead bodies rather than for general waste burning

G

gas oven

vscrematory

• Specialized

8.6

A chamber that uses gas to burn dead bodies

is not limited to gas and covers any fuel or type of furnace

Antonyms

B

burial ground

21 3.9

A place where people are buried, like a cemetery

How Big

crematorium

15 7.4

crematory

4 7.2

cremation chamber

1 6.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology