Columbarium Definition

kŏləm-bârē-əm
columbaria, columbaries
noun
A vault with niches for urns containing the ashes of cremated bodies.
Webster's New World
Such a niche.
Webster's New World
A dovecote.
American Heritage
A pigeonhole in a dovecote.
American Heritage
A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons, particularly those of ancien regime France.
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Columbarium

Noun

Singular:
columbarium
Plural:
columbaria, columbariums

Origin of Columbarium

  • Latin columbārium sepulchre for urns, dovecote from columba dove

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin columbārium.

    From Wiktionary

Columbarium Sentence Examples

  • Columbarium A building, sometimes at least partly underground, whose walls are full of niches for funerary urns.

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

  • Colmar (probably the columbarium of the Romans) is first mentioned, as a royal villa, in a charter of Louis the Pious in 823, and it was here that Charles the Fat held a diet in 884.

  • To a later period belongs a columbarium cut in the rock, with niches for urns.

  • Any honorably discharged veteran is eligible for internment in Arlington, most frequently in the columbarium.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOL

Words Ending With

MUMIUM

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