mortuary Definition

mortuary
noun

mortuaries
1. A building or room in which dead bodies are laid out for identification or kept until they are buried or cremated. Also called morgue.

Thesaurus: morgue, funeral parlour, funeral home, charnel house.

adj

1. Relating to or connected with death, or the burial of the dead.

Etymology: 14c, meaning ‘a customary payment made to a parish priest on the death of parishioner': from Latin adjective mortuarius, from mortuus dead.