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# obituary

«obituary» in Mova's school dictionary: **A piece of writing in a newspaper or website, after…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an obituary, obituaries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A piece of writing in a newspaper or website, after someone has died, telling about their life and what they did. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/obituary/#m1)

2) (informal) A short notice that someone has died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/obituary/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life newspapers print obituaries of famous people and local people; families may write one. In English lessons, it is a non-fiction text type about a life. It tells the reader the person has died (polite, formal style). Phrases: write an obituary, read the obituaries, an obituary in the paper.

### examples

- Grandma's obituary was printed in the local paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/obituary/#x1)
- The obituary told about his life as a fisherman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/obituary/#x2)
- She read the obituaries every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/obituary/#x3)
- The famous singer's obituary was on the news website. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/obituary/#x4)
- We wrote an obituary for our class goldfish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/obituary/#x5)
- An obituary usually lists the person's family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/obituary/#x6)

### note

Countable: obituaries (y to ies). Starts with a vowel sound, so «an obituary». Informal short form: obit. Related to the polite way of talking about death: «passed away».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «obituary» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/obituary/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.