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morgue

substantivocorrente nos diálogos

  • Reino Unido//mɔːɡ//
  • Estados Unidos//moɹɡ//
  • Estados Unidos/[mo̞ɹɡ]/
  • //mɔː(ɹ)ɡ//

A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.

substantivo

  1. 1

    arcaicoA 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.

  2. 2

    A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.

  3. 3

    antiquadoThe archive and background information division of a newspaper.

    Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue

    Shand: get down to the Record and the Trib. See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.

Etimologia

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.

Formas

plural
morgues
As páginas vizinhasA ordem alfabética segue as regras da língua, não o valor dos bytes: um acento só desempata entre duas palavras de resto idênticas, e o espanhol trata o Ñ como uma letra à parte.

Conteúdo lexical proveniente do Wiktionary, sob licença CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrada de origem · Versão dos dados 2026-08-23

Posição entre as palavras do corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — legendas de cinema e televisão, ou seja língua falada e não escrita (CC BY-SA 3.0).