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
Nuova Antologia, 16 Luglio 1902, with necrology of S. Butler under “Tra Libri e Riviste.”
From The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College Cambridge by Bartholomew, A. T.
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