Usually means: Summary of someone's life, death.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word obituary:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. obituary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. obituary: Merriam-Webster
  3. obituary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. obituary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. obituary: Collins English Dictionary
  6. obituary: Vocabulary.com
  7. Obituary, obituary: Wordnik
  8. obituary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. obituary: Wiktionary
  10. obituary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. obituary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. obituary: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Obituary, obituary: Dictionary.com
  14. obituary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. obituary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Obituary (album), Obituary (band), Obituary (comics), Obituary (disambiguation), Obituary (short story), Obituary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Obituary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. obituary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. obituary: Rhymezone
  20. obituary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. obituary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. obituary: FreeDictionary.org
  23. obituary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. obituary: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. obituary: Legal dictionary
  2. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. obituary: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. obituary: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. OBITUARY, OBITUARY, OBITUARY: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obituary: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete), the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published.
noun:  (by extension) A brief biography of a person (especially one who is well-known) who has recently died, usually describing their life and achievements, particularly in the form of an article in a news publication or an item in a news broadcast.
noun:  (figurative) An announcement or description of the end of something.
noun:  (historical) A register of deaths, especially one maintained by a religious institution; a necrology.

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