morgue
/mɔːɡ//moɹɡ/
morgue noun: a supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
Noun
morgue (plural morgues)
- A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
- They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 34
- 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.
- Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue1921 July 2, Joseph F. Kwapil, Fourth Estate, page 5
- Shand: get down to the Record and the Trib. See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 109
morgue meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
morgue in Hindi
- place for dead people
- मुर्दाघर murdāghar, शवगृह śavgŕh
morgue in Tamil
- பிண அடையாளம் காணுமிடம், சில்லறைத்தகவல் சேகரிக்குமிடம், பிணவறை
morgue in Urdu
- place for dead people
- مُردَہ خانَہ murdā xānā
morgue in Bengali
- place for dead people
- শবাগার śobagar
More languagesFewer languages
- morgue in Malayalam
- ശവദർശനശാല, മൃതഗൃഹം
- morgue in Kannada
- ಹೆಣದರೆ, ಹೆಣದ ಮನೆ, ಶವಾಗಾರ
- morgue in Gujarati
- મોર્ગ morg
- morgue in Odia
- ଶବଗୃହ, ଶବଖାନା
- morgue in Pashto
- مړيځی mǝṛiyay
- morgue in Tagalog
- morge
- morgue in Arabic
- مَشْرَحَة mašraḥa
- morgue in Malay
- rumah mayat
- morgue in Indonesian
- rumah mayat, kamar mayat
- morgue in Persian
- مُردِهشویخانِه morde-šuy-xâne, مُردِهخانِه morde-xâne, سَردخانِه sardxâne
- morgue in Thai
- โรงเก็บศพ roong-gèp-sòp, ห้องดับจิต hɔ̂ng-dàp-jìt
- morgue in Vietnamese
- nhà xác
- morgue in Myanmar
- ရေခဲတိုက် rehkai:tuik, ရင်ခွဲရုံ ranghkwai:rum
Examples of morgue in a sentence
- “Now maybe I can get the bodies to the morgue and determine TOD.”
- "Don't forget to bring the gun back tomorrow morning," Peg-leg said, peg-legging it back into the morgue.
- The woman lying dead in the morgue was the woman at the party.
Forms of morgue
| plural | morgues |
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Origin of morgue
Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.
Words formed from morgue
Words that rhyme with morgue
Questions about morgue
- What does morgue mean?
- Morgue means a supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
- What is morgue in Hindi?
- Morgue in Hindi is मुर्दाघर (murdāghar), शवगृह (śavgŕh). See Morgue meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is morgue?
- Morgue is a noun.
- How do you pronounce morgue?
- Morgue is pronounced /mɔːɡ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of morgue?
- The plural of morgue is morgues.
Words near morgue in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: morgue (page history and authors); morgue (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morgue (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morgue (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morgue (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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