morgue

(môrg)

1. A place in which the bodies of persons found dead are kept until identified and claimed or until arrangements for burial have been made.

2. A reference file in a newspaper or magazine office.

[French, from la Morgue, building in Paris used as a morgue, probably from morgue, haughty manner, from Old French morguer, to look at solemnly, from Vulgar Latin *murricāre, to make a face, from *murrum, muzzle.]

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morgue

(mɔːɡ)

1. (Medicine) another word for mortuary¹

2. (Journalism & Publishing) informal a room or file containing clippings, files, etc, used for reference in a newspaper

[C19: from French la Morgue, a Paris mortuary]

morgue

(mɔrɡ)

superiority; haughtiness

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

morgue

(mɔrg)

n.

1. a place in which dead bodies are kept, esp. the bodies of victims of violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.

2. a reference file of old clippings, photographs, etc., esp. in a newspaper office.

[1815–25; < French; Middle French: entry room of a prison, perhaps identical with morgue haughtiness]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

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

dead room, mortuary

building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"

crematorium, crematory - a mortuary where corpses are cremated

funeral chapel, funeral church, funeral home, funeral parlor, funeral parlour, funeral-residence - a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects

Translations

مَشْرَحَةٌمَعْرِض الجُثَث المَجْهولَه

márnice

lighus

LeichenschauhausLeichenhaus

νεκροτομείο

depósito de cadáveres morgue

ruumishuone

morgue

mrtvačnica

hullaház

líkhús

obitorio camera mortuaria

死体保管所霊安所

영안실

lavoninėmorgas

morgs

lijkenhuismortuarium

márnica

mrtvašnica

bårhus

ห้องเก็บศพ

morg

nhà xác

太平间陈尸所停尸房

morgue

[mɔːg] N → depósito m de cadáveres, morgue f (esp LAm)

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morgue

[ˈmɔː^rg] n → morgue f

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morgue

(= mortuary) → Leichenschauhaus nt; to be like a morgue → wie ausgestorben sein

(Press) → Archiv nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

morgue

[mɔːg] n → obitorio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

morgue

(moːg) noun

a building where people who have been found dead are laid until they are identified etc.

morgue

→ مَشْرَحَةٌ márnice lighus Leichenschauhaus νεκροτομείο depósito de cadáveres ruumishuone morgue mrtvačnica obitorio 死体保管所 영안실 lijkenhuis likhus kostnica morgue, necrotério морг bårhus ห้องเก็บศพ morg nhà xác 太平间

morgue

n morgue f, depósito de cadáveres

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Approaching Notre Dame by the river-side, I passed on my way the terrible dead-house of Paris--the Morgue. A great crowd clamoured and heaved round the door.

They had just come out from seeing the sight in the Morgue, and the account they were giving of the dead body to their neighbours described it as the corpse of a man--a man of immense size, with a strange mark on his left arm.

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So the Detective followed the Clew a whole year through a thousand sinuosities, and at last found himself in the office of the Morgue.

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Next we went to visit the Morgue, that horrible receptacle for the dead who die mysteriously and leave the manner of their taking off a dismal secret.

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Roch were aroused from sleep by a succession of terrific shrieks, issuing, apparently, from the fourth story of a house in the Rue Morgue, known to be in the sole occupancy of one Madame L'Espanaye, and her daughter Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye.

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Caderousse's knife, dark lantern, bunch of keys, and clothing, excepting the waistcoat, which could not be found, were deposited at the registry; the corpse was conveyed to the morgue. The count told every one that this adventure had happened during his absence at Auteuil, and that he only knew what was related by the Abbe Busoni, who that evening, by mere chance, had requested to pass the night in his house, to examine some valuable books in his library.

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Found in a Bottle," "A Descent Into a Maelstrom" and "The Balloon Hoax"; such tales of conscience as "William Wilson," "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-tale Heart," wherein the retributions of remorse are portrayed with an awful fidelity; such tales of natural beauty as "The Island of the Fay" and "The Domain of Arnheim"; such marvellous studies in ratiocination as the "Gold-bug," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Purloined Letter" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget," the latter, a recital of fact, demonstrating the author's wonderful capability of correctly analyzing the mysteries of the human mind; such tales of illusion and banter as "The Premature Burial" and "The System of Dr.

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When the editor-in-chief was in possession of the precious foot and informed as to the train of intelligent deductions the boy had been led to make, he was divided between the admiration he felt for such detective cunning in a brain of a lad of sixteen years, and delight at being able to exhibit, in the "morgue window" of his paper, the left foot of the Rue Oberskampf.

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Ere you read this his body will be lying at the Morgue. Go and look upon your handiwork.

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Sometimes it was a call to the telephone in the corner grocery and the curt information by a strange voice that her husband was lying in the receiving hospital or the morgue. And when the mysterious horse-poisoning cases occurred, and when the residence of one of the teaming magnates was half destroyed by dynamite, she saw Billy in prison, or wearing stripes, or mounting to the scaffold at San Quentin while at the same time she could see the little cottage on Pine street besieged by newspaper reporters and photographers.

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He has the good-nature of success and none of the morgue; he has not our confoundedly irritable French vanity.' In short, I took a fancy to you.

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If I find myself wanting this sort of thing at any time, I'll go to Paris and hunt up the Morgue. Bunch of old dead-beats!

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