obituary

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A published notice of a death, sometimes with a brief biography of the deceased.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Of or relating to the death of a person or persons: as, an obituary notice.
• noun A list of the dead; also, a register of obitual anniversary days, when service is performed for the dead.
• noun An account of persons deceased; notice of the death of a person, often accompanied with a brief biographical sketch.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of or pertaining to the death of a person or persons
• noun That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person.
• noun A notice of the death of a person, published in a newspaper or other periodical, accompanied by a biographical sketch which may be brief ro extended.
• noun The section of a newspaper in which obituaries{2} are printed.
• noun (R. C. Ch.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A brief notice of a person’s death, as published in a newspaper.
• noun A biography of a recently deceased person, written by a journalist and published in a newspaper.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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