charnel house

See also: charnelhouse

English

Noun

charnel house (plural charnel houses)

1. A vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored.

   Synonyms: crypt, ossuary

   Hypernym: vault

   Hyponym: mausoleum

   Coordinate terms: deadhouse, morgue, mortuary

   • 2014, “Ghosts of the Charnel House”, performed by Primordial:

     It's words cast long - long shadows
     From the doorway of the Charnel House
     The ghosts of the Charnel House
     They were born to deathless guilt
     The ghosts of the Charnel House
     They were born to shameful night

Alternative forms

• charnel-house

Translations

vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored

• German: Beinhaus (de) n, Karner (de) m, Ossuarium (de) n
• Latin: ossuārium n
• Macedonian: косту́рница f (kostúrnica)
• Polish: karner (pl) m
• Romanian: osuar (ro) n
• Spanish: osario (es) m