Associations to the word «Obituary»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

OBITUARY, noun. A notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography.

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