Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A church register containing the names of those connected with the church who have died.

    a list of people who died recently

  2. (countable, uncountable)A listing of people who have died during a specific period of time.

    2006 Marc Fisher; We Loved That Airline To Death; Washington Post The fare structure is one reason Independence Air has joined a necrology of low-cost carriers that stretches over four decades.

    Nekrolog

    некроло́гnekrológ

  3. (countable, uncountable)A notice of death.

    некроло́гnekrológ

    a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography

  4. (uncountable)The study of death or the dead.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
listing of people who have died:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
listing of people who have died:

Origin

From necro- + -logy.

From necro- + -logy.

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Forms

plural: necrologies
Singularnecrology
Pluralnecrologies

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography:obituaryobit

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
necrology — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto