Charnel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A repository for the bones or bodies of the dead; a charnel house.
  • adj. Resembling, suggesting, or suitable for receiving the dead.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A chapel attached to a mortuary.
  • n. A repository for dead bodies.
  • adj. Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Containing the bodies of the dead.
  • n. A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A common repository for dead bodies; a place for the indiscriminate or close deposit of the remains, and especially of the bones, of the dead; a charnel-house.
  • Containing or designed to contain flesh or dead bodies.
  • n. A hinge, as of a door, window, chest, etc.
  • n. The pivot or hinge on which the beaver or vizor of a helmet moved.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
  • adj. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
    • Equivalent
    offensive   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    vault    burial vault   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    grave    cemetery   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sickly-sweet    waxlike    sulfurous    long-closed    saints'   
     
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