Definition of crematorium
: an establishment or structure in which the bodies of the dead are cremated
He had two funerals in the morning, both bodies due for the crematorium afterward …— Jack Higgins The depositions enabled the commission to gather further evidence from coroners and from the files in morgues, mortuaries and crematoriums.— Alfred Stepan
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The first known use of crematorium was in 1880
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