Associations to the word «Crematory»

Wiktionary

CREMATORY, adjective. Pertaining to the act of cremating bodies.
CREMATORY, noun. The establishment or furnace that cremates bodies.

Dictionary definition

CREMATORY, noun. A mortuary where corpses are cremated.
CREMATORY, noun. A furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats