Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A furnace or establishment for the incineration of corpses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crematory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place where the
bodies ofdead people arecremated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mortuary where corpses are cremated
- noun a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes
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Examples
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I don't know if they gassed people there, but a hell of a lot of people died there and the crematorium is the resting place of those cremated whose ashes didn't fall on us.
Page 3 2006
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I don't know if they gassed people there, but a hell of a lot of people died there and the crematorium is the resting place of those cremated whose ashes didn't fall on us.
Page 3 2006
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I am not sure where the crematorium is but I gathered it was nearby .... maybe Queretero or Guanajuato.
Ashes to Ashes 2003
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Mr de Mello said: "The expression crematorium should mean any building fitted with appliances for the burning of human remains, 'building is not defined'."
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Mr de Mello said: "The expression crematorium should mean any building fitted with appliances for the burning of human remains, 'building is not defined'."
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Milev had a blue glass eye, and when he was arrested and burned alive by the police, all that was left of him in the crematorium was the blue glass eye.
News at Eleven (Back Page): Yiannis Ritsos, the great Greek poet Rus Bowden 2009
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It vanished from cemetarian which I always want to call crematorium or creamatarian by mistake, then another one was snatched from Lanetz Living...it was a veritable BLOODBATH.
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Milev had a blue glass eye, and when he was arrested and burned alive by the police, all that was left of him in the crematorium was the blue glass eye.
Archive 2009-10-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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The second part at the crematorium was a series of personal tributes by
WN.com - Articles related to Boston Archdiocese welcomes 2 rectors as auxiliary bishops 2010
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The second part at the crematorium was a series of personal tributes by a representative group of his many admirers, who spoke - not only of his time in the church, but of the excellent fearless work he did as a married man and private employed citizen.
WN.com - Articles related to Boston Archdiocese welcomes 2 rectors as auxiliary bishops 2010
qms commented on the word crematorium
In the mid-1970s, for at least two consecutive years, the Yellow Pages of Lansing, MI, listed the local crematorium under "dairies."
January 29, 2014
gangerh commented on the word crematorium
crème brûlée to die for, qms?
January 30, 2014