A notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography.

synonyms: necrology, obituary.

Roget 360: death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.    end of life etc. 67, cessation of life etc. 142, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life etc. 359.    death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne [Fr.]; rigor mortis [Lat.]; Stygian shore.    King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom etc. (necessity) 601; Hell's grim Tyrant" [Pope]. euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease etc. (disease) 655; death blow etc. (killing) 361.    necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song etc. (lamentation) 839.    ... show more

Dutch: doodsbrief, herdenkingsdienst, necrologie, doodsbericht, rouwadvertentie
Polish: nekrolog