necrology
Americannoun
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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
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Origin of necrology
Explanation
A necrology is a list of people who have died, or an obituary of a single person. If someone is writing a history of one battle of the Civil War, they might attempt a necrology of every soldier who died. If the newspaper publishes a list of passengers who died in a plane crash, you can call it a necrology. And the obituary, or death notice, of your great grandfather who died at the age of 110, can also be called a necrology — although obituary is much more common. Necrology was used more often in the eighteenth century, and it comes from necro-, "death," from the Greek nekros, "corpse."
Vocabulary lists containing 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
If it had fallen while we were passing, one more catastrophe would no doubt have been added to the list, already too long, of the necrology of Mont Blanc.
From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Verne, Jules
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