crematorium

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a building or facility where dead bodies are cremated

   After the funeral, the coffin was taken to the crematorium.

2. 2
   noun

   a furnace in which a dead body is reduced to ashes

   Modern filters limit the emissions released by a crematorium.

From New Latin crematorium, a noun formed from Latin cremare ("to burn, cremate") with the place-forming suffix -orium. English adopted the term in the nineteenth century as modern cremation facilities were established.

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