charnel

Examples

• All

• The archaeologists uncovered an ancient charnel house filled with human remains from centuries past.

• To fashion any happiness within this charnel yard is,

  Fiction book (1994)

• Centuries later, the area was used for a Byzantine charnel house and, later, for a tannery, the lined masonry vats of which are still preserved.

  Academic text (2007)

• PHOTO (COLOR): At the western end of the Yenikapi excavations, archaeologists found a maze of ruins, including a multichamber late Byzantine charnel house and a portion of the early city wall.

  Academic text (2007)

• Visitors to the historical site were shocked to learn about the purpose of the charnel house located nearby.

Synonyms

V

vault

vscharnel

15 6.9

An underground room for holding the bodies of several people

is more specifically tied to historic or religious sites and to storing bones

B

burial vault

vscharnel

1 7.9

An underground space for burying a coffin that protects it and holds family coffins

is focused on storing bones or corpses rather than sealed coffin burial

C

charnel house

vscharnel

• Archaic

1 9.9

A building that holds bodies or bones of the dead

is the shorter single word term rather than the longer phrase

C

charmel

vscharnel

• Archaic

9.9

A building near a church where people's bones are kept

is the regular modern form rather than the archaic version

U

undercroft

vscharnel

• Archaic

9.9

A room under a church used for burials or quiet prayer

is not limited to beneath a church and applies to various historic religious sites

Compounds

C

charnel house

• Archaic

1 9.9

A building that holds bodies or bones of the dead

How Big

necropolis

4 9.9

catacomb

16 9.1

charnel

• Archaic

1 9.9

vault

15 6.9

ossuary

5 9.9

Surface Forms

Etymology