dead room
- noun
- /dɛd ruːm/
- UK
:
sala de cadáveres
- The funeral home has a dead room where families can say their final goodbyes.
Examples
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In the dead room, the bodies are prepared for the upcoming services.
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After the autopsy, the body was placed in the dead room for identification.
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It's like... it's like a dead room in here.
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What about that dead room?
Synonyms
217
6.5
A place where people keep dead bodies before burial and for identification and autopsy
81
3.4
A place where people prepare a dead body for burial or cremation and say goodbye
40
7.5
A place where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
11
3.4
A place where dead people are kept and prepared before burial or cremation for family to visit and pay respects
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'dead' (deceased) + 'room' (an indoor space) yields 'a room for the dead', which matches the provided definition of a mortuary. This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common naming pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Dead room comes from the literal idea of a dead body kept in a room until a funeral. That's why it means 'mortuary'.