Meaning

1 senses

  1. The establishment or furnace that cremates bodies.

More definitions
  • a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes
  • a mortuary where corpses are cremated

Examples

2 sentences

  1. They offered me a job in a crematory, which I refused.

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  2. I was offered a job in a crematory, which I refused.

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Origin

From cremate + -ory.

From cremate + -ory.

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Forms

plural: crematories
Singularcrematory
Pluralcrematories

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
crematorium
Close in meaning
  • a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes:crematoriumcremation chamber
  • a mortuary where corpses are cremated:crematorium

Word family

3 related words
Relatedcrematecrematorcrematorium

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
creepercreepyB2crematecrematoriumcreolecrepecrescendo

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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