CORONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coroner mean? 

• CORONER (noun)
  The noun CORONER has 1 sense:

1. a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes

  Familiarity information: CORONER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coroner; medical examiner

Hypernyms ("coroner" is a kind of...):

investigator (someone who investigates)

 Context examples 

And what conclusions did the coroner come to?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

None dared arrest him until there should be due inquiry, but when the coroner’s court brought wilful murder against him, the constables came for him in full cry.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The coroner’s jury brought in the obvious Wilful Murder, but the parties remained as unknown as ever.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You knew that, when you avoided the coroner.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In case the coroner should demand it, there would be a formal inquest, necessarily to the same result.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It could only be a small one, or it would have been remarked upon at the coroner’s inquiry.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where the poison fangs had done their work.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way as to deceive a coroner’s jury.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because I was concerned in it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)