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cremation |
cremation chamber |
cremationist |
cremator |
crematorium |
crematory
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crematory
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun crematory has 2 senses
- crematory(n = noun.artifact) crematorium - a mortuary where corpses are cremated; Array is a kind of dead room, morgue, mortuary
- crematory(n = noun.artifact) cremation chamber, crematorium - a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes; Array is a kind of furnace
has particulars: gas oven
CIDE DICTIONARY
crematory, n. [NL. crematorium, fr. L. cremator.].
A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace. [1913 Webster]
crematory, a.
Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
crematory, adj. & n.
--adj. of or relating to cremation.
--n. (pl. -ies) US = CREMATORIUM.
--adj. of or relating to cremation.
--n. (pl. -ies) US = CREMATORIUM.
ROGET THESAURUS
crematory
Interment
N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.
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