crematorium
noun
a crematory.
crematoria
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pluralof crematorium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The $20 billion-a-year death industry has long been dominated by the same institutions: funeral homes, cemeteries, crematoria and religious groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
“When Amnon took the instrument apart, he discovered ashes inside that he could only assume to be fallout from the crematoria at Auschwitz.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
The crematoria, but also the other machines that were used, the textile machines, and the armor manufacturing they would do, and the footsteps of the people and the soil of the place.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2024
And then, with crematoria and funeral homes filling up, they had to pull strings to find him a final resting place.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2023
Throughout the German empire there are, in addition to the above, crematoria at Bremen, Eisenach, Jena, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Mainz, Offenbach, Heilbronn, Ulm, Chemnitz and Stuttgart, besides over eighty societies for promoting cremation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
