English-Thai Dictionary

morgue

N ที่เก็บ ศพ  ห้อง เก็บ ศพ  ห้อง ดับจิต  mortuary ti-keb-sob

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MORGUE

Morgue, n. Etym: [F.]

 

Defn: A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

morgue

morgue |môrg mɔrɡ | ▶noun 1 a place where bodies are kept, esp. to be identified or claimed: the cadavers were bagged and removed to the city morgue. • used metaphorically to refer to a place that is quiet, gloomy, or cold: she put us in that drafty morgue of a sitting room. 2 informal in a newspaper office, a collection of old cuttings, photographs, and information: conducting research in either a news morgue or a library. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from French, originally the name of a building in Paris where bodies were kept until identified.

 

Oxford Dictionary

morgue

morgue |mɔːg | ▶noun 1 a mortuary. • used in reference to a place that is quiet, gloomy, or cold: she put us in that draughty morgue of a sitting room. 2 informal a newspaper's collection of miscellaneous information for use in future obituaries. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from French, originally the name of a building in Paris where bodies were kept until identified.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

morgue

morgue noun the body, still unidentified, was taken to the morgue: mortuary, funeral parlour, funeral chapel, funeral home; Brit. chapel of rest; archaic charnel house, dead house, lich-house.

 

Duden Dictionary

Morgue

Morgue Substantiv, feminin , die |mɔrg |die Morgue; Genitiv: der Morgue, Plural: die Morguen |[…gn̩ ] |germanisch-französisch Leichenschauhaus [in Paris ]

 

French Dictionary

morgue

morgue n. f. nom féminin 1 littéraire Arrogance, air hautain et méprisant. : « Vraiment? » répondit -il avec morgue. « Reprendre son allure de reine offensée, retrouver sa morgue et sa hauteur » (Anne Hébert , Kamouraska ). 2 Lieu où l ’on conserve momentanément des cadavres.

 

Spanish Dictionary

morgue

morgue nombre femenino Depósito de cadáveres .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

morgue

morgue /mɔː r ɡ /名詞 C 1 死体公示所 〘身元不明の死体を公示する; →mortuary 〙.2 ｟くだけて ｠(新聞社の )資料 ; 資料室 .3 (人気がなく )陰気な場所 .