Morgue vs. Mortuary

Morguenoun

A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.

Morguenoun

A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.

Morguenoun

The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

Morguenoun

A place where the bodies of dead persons are kept, until they are identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

Morguenoun

A room containing reference files of older material in a newspaper office; also, the material contained in such a room.

Morguenoun

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

Morgue

A morgue or mortuary (in a hospital or elsewhere) is a place used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification or removal for autopsy or respectful burial, cremation or other method. In modern times, corpses have customarily been refrigerated to delay decomposition.

Mortuaryadjective

of, or relating to death or a funeral; funereal

Mortuarynoun

A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation.

Mortuarynoun

(historical) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.

Mortuarynoun

A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.

Mortuarynoun

A burial place; a place for the dead.

Mortuarynoun

A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.

Mortuarynoun

A funeral home.

Mortuaryadjective

Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.

Mortuarynoun

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

Mortuaryadjective

of or relating to or characteristic of death

Mortuaryadjective

of or relating to a funeral