Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   o·bit·u·ar·y

   /əˈbiCHəˌwerē/

   noun

   • 1. a notice of a death, especially in a newspaper, typically including a brief biography of the deceased person: "an obituary notice"

   Word Origin early 18th century: from medieval Latin obituarius, from Latin obitus ‘death’, from obit- ‘perished’, from the verb obire.

   Derivatives

   • 1. obituarist noun
   • 2. obituarial adjective

   Scrabble Points: 13

   • O

     1

   • B

     3

   • I

     1

   • T

     1

   • U

     1

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • Y

     4

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points