Usually means: Storage for deceased before identification.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word morgue:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. morgue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. morgue: Merriam-Webster
  3. morgue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. morgue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. morgue: Collins English Dictionary
  6. morgue: Vocabulary.com
  7. Morgue, morgue: Wordnik
  8. morgue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. morgue: Wiktionary
  10. morgue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. morgue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. morgue: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. morgue: Dictionary.com
  14. morgue: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. morgue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Morgue (film), Morgue, The Morgue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Morgue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. morgue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. morgue: Rhymezone
  20. morgue, morgue (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. morgue: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. morgue: FreeDictionary.org
  23. morgue: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. morgue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. morgue: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. morgue: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. morgue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. morgue: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Morgue: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. morgue: Medical dictionary
  6. Morgue: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Morgue: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. morgue: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Morgue: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (archaic) A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
noun:  A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
noun:  (archaic) The archive and background information division of a newspaper.

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