mortuary
noun /ˈmɔːtʃəri/
/ˈmɔːrtʃueri/
(plural mortuaries)
- a room or building, for example part of a hospital, in which dead bodies are kept before they are buried or cremated (= burned)
太平间；停尸房 - They put the body in the hospital mortuary.
他们把尸体放在医院太平间。 - He works at the public mortuary.
他在公共太平间工作。
- They put the body in the hospital mortuary.
- (North American English) (British English funeral parlour, US English also funeral parlor, funeral home North American English, British English)a place where dead people are prepared for being buried or cremated (= burned) and where visitors can see the body
殡仪馆 compare morgue
词源late Middle English (denoting a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate): from Latin mortuarius, from mortuus ‘dead’. The current noun sense dates from the mid 19th cent.