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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A published notice of a death, sometimes with a brief biography of the deceased.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or relating to the death of a person or persons: as, an obituary notice.
  2. n. A list of the dead; also, a register of obitual anniversary days, when service is performed for the dead.
  3. n. An account of persons deceased; notice of the death of a person, often accompanied with a brief biographical sketch.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A brief notice of a person’s death, as published in a newspaper.
  2. n. A biography of a recently deceased person, written by a journalist and published in a newspaper.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons
  2. n. That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person.
  3. n. A notice of the death of a person, published in a newspaper or other periodical, accompanied by a biographical sketch which may be brief ro extended.
  4. n. The section of a newspaper in which obituaries{2} are printed.
  5. n. (R. C. Ch.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography

Etymologies

  1. From Medieval Latin obituarius, from Latin obitus ("a going to a place, approach, usually a going down, setting (as of the sun), fall, ruin, death"), from obire ("to go or come to, usually go down, set, fall, perish, die"), from ob ("toward, to") + ire ("to go"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Medieval Latin obituārius, (report) of death, from Latin obitus, death, from past participle of obīre, to meet, meet one's death : ob-, toward; see ob- + īre, to go; see ei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (2)

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  1. obit
  1. necrology

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  1. notice

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  1. necrology
  1. necrologist
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  1. in memoriam
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  1. obituarize
  1. notice
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  • gcastro I always skip this section on the newspaper because it's depressing. Oct 1, 2010

  • bilby Yesterday I heard a newsreader pronounce this as a bitchery. Which is not very nice at all :-( Oct 7, 2009

  • snapd I do not have more definitive etymological information from Serbo Croatian but I find this mention from arl Darling Buck's A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in Principal Indo-European Languages University of Chicago Press page 133 section 2.82 (Family) number 6 to be interesting:

    Serbo-Croatian obitelj: Church Slavonic obiteli ‘dwelling’ (of monks), ‘monastery’, from obitati ‘dwell’

    The resemblance to obit is too startling for it not to merit further investigation? May 27, 2009

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