obituary
- noun
- /əˈbɪtʃuˌɛri/
- She read the obituary in the newspaper, remembering the joyful moments they had shared.
- an obituary notice
- read the obituary
- a newspaper obituary
And, you know, I think I would appreciate obituaries that were more accurate, right?
- And, you know, I think I would appreciate obituaries that were more accurate, right?
- It's it's the obituary of Steve Jobs written by his sister.
- And I noticed that none of the obituaries actually had any background.
- Our obituaries can often be savage, but what was read there is not true.
- And when he retired, he was going through the the local paper one morning, the obituary column, and saw a name like oh, Hurley.
- And like with her, when I went and looked up her obituary, it just that hit me so heavy because it says her name.
- In a first O'Brien read the obituary for the fake podcaster from the fake Slate review while miming swiping up on his screen.
- I read this quote during in an obituary for Floyd Patterson, the boxer, and he said he only learned from losing a fight.
- There is no obituary, no evidence of her death online at all.
- He once was heard saying, and I quote, My obituary must include the words woods and power equipment in quote when?
- Now this, this obituary, you have to believe that I'm not making this up.
- We our names were in use for the obituary section of the skeleton.
- And she actually has knowledge Aiden and her obituary.
Examples
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One day I read in the Times obituary that Dr. Bingham passed away after a long illness.
Fiction book (1996) -
The most memorable of these was the obituary of the historian A. L. Rowse in Oxford Today:
Academic text (1999) -
It's it's the obituary of Steve Jobs written by his sister.
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The next day's New York Times carried an obituary on its front page.
Fiction book (1990) -
I am sending you this obituary notice by way of announcing his death.
Fiction book (1996) -
A similar search for Louis R. Harolds turned up his New York Times obituary, which reads much like Standard's.
Academic text (2017) -
Increasingly, of course, they're obituaries of people that I have known.
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Just look in the obituary column of today's L.A. Post-Record.
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Only Bessie was up, studying the newspaper obituaries, her first act of each day.
Fiction book (1996) -
What he'd left behind were obituaries from various local newspapers published across the United States.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
A notice in a newspaper or online about someone's death with a short life story
A published list of people who have died with short details about their lives
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Etymology
Obituary comes from the Latin word obitus, meaning 'a going away', made from ob- 'toward' and ire 'to go'. So an obituary is like a notice of someone's last 'going away' — a short account of their life written when they die.