columbarium
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- noun
- /ˌkɒl.əmˈbɛr.i.əm/
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columbario
- The columbarium was beautifully designed, providing a peaceful resting place for the urns of those who had been cremated.
- columbarium for an urn
She's more real to me there than in her columbarium.
- She's more real to me there than in her columbarium.
Examples
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We never went to the Columbarium, but you can bet your ass it's on my next year's list!
Blog text (2) -
Go to the Columbarium off Geary and Stayan (behind the Kinko's/FedEx place).
Blog text (2) -
"Well-Organized Things": A columbarium, a place to urn the dead, is organized for the convenience of the living; the Civil Service, a place to earn a living, is organized for the dead.
Blog text (5) -
Today, a Yiddish library resembles nothing so much as an ancient columbarium, the ashes of countless dead writers stored in their decorative cases on the shelves.
Academic text (2000) -
Then he'd discovered the burial urn filled with precious stones, sitting innocently on the shelf of the makeshift columbarium in the church closet.
Fiction book (1999) -
Tomorrow is Toussaint in Paris, All Saints' Day, and I suppose I'll visit Brice's little white marble plaque in the columbarium at Père Lachaise.
Fiction book (1996) -
Families can choose to place their loved ones' ashes in a niche in a columbarium instead of a traditional burial plot.
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Visitors often leave flowers and personal mementos at the columbarium to honor the memories of their departed relatives.
Synonyms
A small space in a tomb for keeping an urn with a person's ashes
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word columbarium comes from the Latin columba meaning 'dove' and the ending -arium meaning 'a place for'. It first meant a 'dovecote', a wall of small nests for pigeons, and today a columbarium is a wall of small niches that hold funeral urns, like nests holding ashes.