obit

noun

ō-ˈbit  ˈō-bət 

 especially British  ˈä-bit

: obituary

Synonyms

• necrology
• obituary

Examples of obit in a Sentence

she reads the obits as soon as she gets her morning paper

Recent Examples on the Web

The obit also misidentified the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams whom Chuck Knox replaced in 1973. —New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024

Manny had brought home local papers after that, the Tampa Bay Times, the Bellingham Herald, which August proceeded to read from front page to obits. —Camille Bordas, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024

The obits are posted on sites that publish a continuous stream of unrelated articles on random topics. —USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024

Like a sportswriter becoming a major league pitcher, or an obit writer opening a mortuary. —Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024

According to an obit on the official Star Trek website, Mitchell hoped to bring a new perspective on Klingon culture with his role as Kol on Discovery. —EW.com, 25 Feb. 2024

My obits appear to have come from multiple entities. —Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024

The obit continues, Major Smothers remained on Corregidor in Manila Bay to fight and was taken prisoner on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. —Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024

But the finer points of the Slay obit were less a resume than a catalog of whimsy. —James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023

Word History

Etymology

in part short for obituary, in part continuing Middle English obit "death, record of a death date, religious service marking a death anniversary," borrowed from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Medieval Latin obitus, going back to Latin, "approach, encounter, death, setting of a heavenly body," from obi-, stem of obīre "to meet with, visit, meet one's death, die" (from ob- "toward, facing" + īre "to go") + -tus, suffix of action nouns — more at ob-, issue entry 1

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above