morgue

Meaning

1. (archaic) A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
2. A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
3. (archaic) The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

Synonyms

mortuary

dead room

charnel

haughtiness

deadhouse

arrogance

dead-house

charnel house

funeral home

Translations

morgue

obitorio

Leichenschauhaus

necrotério

morgue

νεκροτομείο

camera mortuaria

morg

Leichenhaus

νεκροθάλαμος

depósito de cadáveres

mortuarium

Leichenhalle

morgue

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɔːɡ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.