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ALL meanings of columbarium

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  • noun columbarium a vault having niches for funeral urns 3
  • noun columbarium a hole in a wall into which a beam is inserted 3
  • noun columbarium a vault with niches for urns containing the ashes of cremated bodies 3
  • noun columbarium such a niche 3
  • noun columbarium A room or building with niches for funeral urns to be stored. 1
  • noun plural columbarium a sepulchral vault or other structure with recesses in the walls to receive the ashes of the dead. 1
  • noun plural columbarium any one of these recesses. 1
  • abbreviation COLUMBARIUM columbary. 1
  • noun columbarium A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France; a dovecote. 0
  • noun columbarium A pigeonhole in such a dovecote. 0
  • noun columbarium (by extension) A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains. 0
  • noun columbarium A niche in such a building for housing urns. 0
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