noun
- a place where dead bodies are kept temporarily, especially to be identified or examined
- a collection of reference materials, especially photographs and clippings, kept by a newspaper or magazine
Usage: journalism
Examples
- The body was taken to the city morgue for identification.
- Family members were asked to visit the morgue to identify the victim.
- The coroner examined the remains at the county morgue.
- The newspaper’s morgue contained decades of archived photographs.
- Reporters often searched the morgue for background information on stories.
- The magazine’s photo morgue was digitized last year.