MORGUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morgue mean? 

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

1. a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORGUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dead room; morgue; mortuary

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

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "morgue"):

crematorium; crematory (a mortuary where corpses are cremated)

funeral-residence; funeral chapel; funeral church; funeral home; funeral parlor; funeral parlour (a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects)