Obituary Definition

ō-bĭcho͝o-ĕrē
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noun
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A notice of someone's death, as in a newspaper, usually with a brief biography.
Webster's New World
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Antonyms:
  • birth announcement
adjective
Of or recording a death or deaths.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Obituary

Noun

Singular:
obituary
Plural:
obituaries

Origin of Obituary

  • From Medieval Latin obituarius, from Latin obitus (“a going to a place, approach, usually a going down, setting (as of the sun), fall, ruin, death"), from obire (“to go or come to, usually go down, set, fall, perish, die"), from ob (“toward, to") + ire (“to go").

    From Wiktionary

  • Medieval Latin obituārius (report) of death from Latin obitus death from past participle of obīre to meet, meet one's death ob- toward ob– īre to go ei- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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