charnel house
Kelime Anlamı :

1. ölü kemiklerinin koyulduğu yer.
2. cesetlerin koyulduğu yer.
Eş Anlamlı Kelimeler :
ossuary
Tanımlar :
1. A building, room, or vault in which the bones or bodies of the dead are placed; a charnel.
2. A scene or place of great physical suffering and loss of life: the bombing turned the barracks into a charnel house.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. a vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. A place, usually under or near a church, where the bones of the dead are deposited; formerly, and still in parts of brittany, a kind of portico or gallery, in or near a churchyard, over which the bones of the dead were laid after the flesh was consumed.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.