Meaning

4 senses
  1. (historical)A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person.

  2. A record of a person's death.

  3. (colloquial)An obituary.

  4. (archaic)The death of a person.

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

Origin

From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (“going down; d

From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (“going down; death”), from obīre (“to go down, to die”).

Clipping of obituary.

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Forms

plural: obits
Singularobit
Pluralobits

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedpost-obit

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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