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obit

UK/ˈɒbɪt/

obit noun: the death of a person.

Noun (1)

obit (plural obits)

  1. (archaic) The death of a person.
  2. (historical) A mass or other service held for the soul of a dead person.
    • Medieval wills often contained bequests to pay for the singing of special (non-perpetual) masses on the testator's behalf. These obits, as they were called, combined alms for the poor with masses for the dead.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 582
  3. A record of a person's death.

Noun (2)

UK/ˈəʊbɪt/

obit (plural obits)

  1. (colloquial) An obituary.
    • So a proposed US series, called Circling the Drain, is certainly breaking new ground. It involves a 25-year-old reporter (played by Caprica's Alessandra Torresani) who is reassigned from a paper's style section to its obits desk.2010 December 9, Roy Greenslade, “Don't laugh - new TV show is set on a newspaper obits desk”, in The Guardian

obit meaning in Tamil and Urdu

obit in Tamil

மரணம், நினைவுவழிபாடு, நினைவேந்தல், இறப்பு

obit in Urdu

تاریخ رحلت

Forms of obit

pluralobits

Origin of obit

From Anglo-Norman obit, Middle French obit, and their source, Latin obitus (“going down; death”), from obīre (“to go down, to die”).

Clipping of obituary.

Words formed from obit

Words that rhyme with obit

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Questions about obit

What does obit mean?
Obit means the death of a person.
What is obit in Tamil?
Obit in Tamil is மரணம், நினைவுவழிபாடு, நினைவேந்தல். See Obit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is obit?
Obit is a noun.
How do you pronounce obit?
Obit is pronounced /ˈɒbɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of obit?
The plural of obit is obits.

Words near obit in the dictionary

  1. Obion
  2. Obion County
  3. obis
  4. Obispo
  5. Obispos
  6. obit
  7. obital
  8. obiter
  9. obiter dicta
  10. obiter dictum
  11. obiter scripta

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Adapted from Wiktionary: obit (page history and authors); obit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); obit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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