charnel house

charnel house
Synonyms and related words:
barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, box grave, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, burning ghat, catacombs, cenotaph, cist, cist grave, crematorium, crematory, cromlech, crypt, deadhouse, deep six, dokhma, dolmen, grave, house of death, last home, long home, low green tent, low house, mastaba, mausoleum, monstrance, morgue, mortuary, mummy chamber, narrow house, ossuarium, ossuary, passage grave, pit, pyramid, reliquary, resting place, sepulcher, shaft grave, shrine, stupa, tomb, tope, tower of silence, tumulus, vault

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  • Charnel house — Charnel Char nel, a. [F. charnel carnal, fleshly, fr. L. carnalis. See {Carnal}.] Containing the bodies of the dead. Charnel vaults. Milton. [1913 Webster] {Charnel house}, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • charnel house — ► NOUN historical ▪ a building or vault in which corpses or bones were piled. ORIGIN from Latin carnalis relating to flesh …   English terms dictionary

  • Charnel house — For the publisher of the same name, see Charnel House Contents of a Greek Orthodox charnel house showing disarticulated human skeletal remains …   Wikipedia

  • charnel house — [[t]tʃɑ͟ː(r)n(ə)l haʊs[/t]] charnel houses N COUNT A charnel house is a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored …   English dictionary

  • charnel house — char·nel house || tʃɑːnl vault or place where dead bodies and bones are stored; place wherein there is much physical distress and pain and loss of life (e.g., the bombarding turned the buildings into a charnel house ) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Charnel House (publisher) — For the building used to house skeletal remains, see Charnel house Charnel House Type Private Industry Publishing Genre Horror Founded Catskill, New York, U.S. (1989) …   Wikipedia

  • charnel house — char|nel house [ˈtʃa:nl haus US ˈtʃa:r ] n [Date: 1500 1600; : French; Origin: charnel, from Medieval Latin carnale, from Late Latin carnalis; CARNAL] literary a place where the bodies and bones of dead people are stored …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • charnel-house — n. a house or vault in which dead bodies or bones are piled. Etymology: ME & OF charnel burying place f. med.L carnale f. LL carnalis CARNAL …   Useful english dictionary

  • charnel house — noun see charnel …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • charnel house — noun historical a building or vault in which corpses or bones are piled. Origin C16: from ME charnel burying place , from OFr., from med. L. carnale, from late L. carnalis relating to flesh , from caro, carn flesh …   English new terms dictionary

  • charnel-house — See charnel …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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