catacomb
Kelime Anlamı :

1. katakomp.
2. yeraltı mezarlığı.
3. yeraltında inşa edilmiş koridorları ve odaları olan mezarlık.
4. yeraltı mezar.
5. katakomb.
Tanımlar :
1. an underground cemetery consisting of chambers or tunnels with recesses for graves. often used in the plural.
2. an underground, often labyrinthine passageway.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. an underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a subterranean tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in paris or ancient rome.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. originally, the name of a locality near rome, the “hollows,” in which the church of st. Sebastian, with extensive burial-vaults, was built; but afterward applied to the vaults themselves, and to similar underground burial-places.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient rome)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.