morgue, mortuary, dead room
(noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
morgue (plural morgues)
A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
• (place for corpses): See mortuary
Source: Wiktionary
Morgue, n. Etym: [F.]
Definition: A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
