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Definition of Dead room
1. Noun. A building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation.
Generic synonyms: Building, Edifice
Specialized synonyms: Crematorium, Crematory, Funeral Chapel, Funeral Church, Funeral Home, Funeral Parlor, Funeral Parlour, Funeral-residence
Derivative terms: Mortuary, Mortuary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dead Room
Literary usage of Dead room
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.) (1898)
"We would suggest that it is hardly necessary to have a dead room for each department
of the Almshouse, and that it would be better to erect a small one-room ..."
2. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1854)
"In the dead-room is a series of wooden couches, on one of which is laid the body,
... 1C After having lain in the dead-room during twenty-four hours, ..."
3. Last Winter in Rome by Charles Richard Weld (1865)
"... Patients—Hospital of Santissima Salvatore—The Dead-Room—Asylum for
Lunatics —Foundling Hospital—Manner of depositing Infants—A Young Mother—The Public ..."
4. Yellow Fever; a Compilation of Various Publications: Results of the Work of by Robert Latham Owen (1911)
"Dr. Carroll upon his visit to the before-mentioned dead room only used the platinum
loop for taking cultures and did not come in contact with the autopsy ..."
5. A History of the Forty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the by Eugene Arus Nash (1910)
"To go from our basement to the "dead room," it was necessary to step out on the
... We had but one, and that one had been taken to the "dead room" with a ..."
6. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands OB two trestles, ...
What is this dead-room?" " It is a chamber on the ground floor which has a ..."
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