Obituary

Noun

 * 1) A brief notice of a person’s death, as published in a newspaper.
 * 2) A biography of a recently deceased person, written by a journalist and published in a newspaper.

Related terms

 * obit
 * obitual
 * obituarist

Thesaurus
Clio, Muse of history, adventures, annals, arch, archival, autobiography, barrow, bill of mortality, biographical sketch, biography, body count, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, case history, casualty list, cenotaph, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, cinerary, column, confessions, cromlech, cross, cup, curriculum vitae, cyclolith, death roll, diary, dirgelike, dismal, documental, documentary, documentational, dolmen, epigraphic, epitaphic, eulogy, exequial, experiences, feral, footstone, fortunes, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, funereal, grave, gravestone, hagiography, hagiology, headstone, historiography, history, hoarstone, inscription, journal, legend, life, life and letters, life story, marker, martyrology, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, memorials, menhir, monolith, monument, mortuary, mortuary roll, mound, mournful, necrological, necrologue, necrology, obelisk, obit, obsequial, photobiography, pillar, plaque, prize, profile, pyramid, record, register of deaths, reliquary, remembrance, resume, ribbon, rostral column, sepulchral, shaft, shrine, stela, stone, story, stupa, tablet, testimonial, theory of history, tomb, tombstone, tope, trophy

Etymology
From obituarius: <  obitus: < obire: < ob: + ire:.

Translations

 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Todesanzeige, Traueranzeige
 * Greek: αναγγελία θανάτου (anangelia thanatu)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:


 * Ido:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian: nekrolog
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: iomradh-bàis
 * Slovene: osmrtnica
 * Spanish: necrología ,


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: nekrológ
 * Lithuanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: iomradh-bàis
 * Slovene: nekrolog, osmrtnica