Definitions for columbarium

columbarium col·um·bar·i·um

Spelling: [kol-uh m-bair-ee-uh m]
IPA: /ˌkɒl əmˈbɛər i əm/

Columbarium is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 540 anagrams from letters in columbarium (abcilmmoruu).

Definitions for columbarium

noun

  1. a sepulchral vault or other structure with recesses in the walls to receive the ashes of the dead.
  2. any one of these recesses.
  3. columbary.

Origin of columbarium

1840-50; Latin: literally, a nesting box for pigeons, equivalent to columb(a) pigeon, dove + -ārium -ary

Examples for columbarium

The second columbarium is much like the first, excepting that the stair is not so well preserved.

In these gardens an interesting discovery has just been made; an extensive burial place, or columbarium, in singular preservation.

So as she still sat with shining eyes, dreaming again of that columbarium, I pressed to the next point.

Archologists call such a group of tombs a columbarium; (see Fig. 230).

There is the Roman columbarium, within the Etruscan site; there are the Etruscan tombs bored deep in all the surrounding hills.

As the niche was like a dove's nest in shape, it was called a "columbarium," the whole tomb a "columbaria."

In the rectory orchard close by is the "columbarium," or all that is left of it.

On the road to Assiut is a fine Roman columbarium or dove-cote.

Thus they looked somewhat like the little entrances to a pigeon-house, and hence the name of columbarium.

columbarium means not only a dovecote, but also a sepulchre, with niches for urns.

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