Definitions for ossuary

ossuary os·su·ar·y

Spelling: [osh-oo-er-ee, os-]
IPA: /ˈɒʃ uˌɛr i, ˈɒs-/

Ossuary is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in ossuary (aorssuy).

Definitions for ossuary

noun

  1. a place or receptacle for the bones of the dead.

Origin of ossuary

1650-60; Late Latin ossuārium, variant of ossārium, equivalent to oss- (stem of os) bone + -ārium -ary

Examples for ossuary

The French cemetery at Notre Dame de Lorette has 20,000 named graves and an ossuary with 20,000 unknown dead.

I love to go to his ossuary of dead transactions, as I would visit the catacombs of Rome or Paris.

After a time the body is taken up, the bones cleaned, and deposited in an ossuary called the Quiogozon.

ossuary, os′ū-ar-i, n. a place where the bones of the dead are deposited: a charnel-house.

Bonaparte stopped near the ossuary, and desired to be shown the spot where the battle of Morat was fought.

The Magdalenians have passed through this ossuary and have drawn out all the canine teeth to make ornaments of them.

Word Value for ossuary
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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