CREMATORIUM (crematoria)

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Irregular inflected form: crematoria   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does crematorium mean? 

• CREMATORIUM (noun)
  The noun CREMATORIUM has 2 senses:

1. a mortuary where corpses are cremated

2. a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes

  Familiarity information: CREMATORIUM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREMATORIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mortuary where corpses are cremated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

crematorium; crematory

Hypernyms ("crematorium" is a kind of...):

dead room; morgue; mortuary (a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cremation chamber; crematorium; crematory

Hypernyms ("crematorium" is a kind of...):

furnace (an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crematorium"):

gas oven (a cremation chamber fueled by gas)