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obits

obits is the plural of obit.

Meaning of obit

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)

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

Questions about obits

What is obits the plural of?
Obits is the plural of obit.

Words near obits in the dictionary

  1. obiter dicta
  2. obiter dictum
  3. obiter scripta
  4. obiter scriptum
  5. obiters
  6. obits
  7. obitual
  8. obituarial
  9. obituarian
  10. obituarians
  11. obituaries

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