necrology
Americannoun
plural
necrologies-
a list of persons who have died within a certain time.
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a notice of death; obituary.
noun
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a list of people recently dead
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a less common word for obituary
Other Word Forms
- necrologic adjective
- necrological adjective
- necrologically adverb
- necrologist noun
Etymology
Origin of necrology
Example Sentences
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How woefully The Post covers necrology news, the dead beat.
From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2021
Whitman’s name doesn’t come up in Vanessa Gould’s “Obit,” a documentary about The Times’s necrology team at work.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2017
I mean, no Rivette in the necrology montage?
From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2016
One of the most popular improvements was a necrology, a list of the names of the dead, which began appearing in the third edition.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
Of these the only record is in the annual necrology and the quaint Latin of the "Triennial."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
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