columbarium
Kelime Anlamı :
1. güvercinlik.
2. güvercinlik delikleri.
3. (isim) güvercinlik.
Tanımlar :
1.
A vault with niches for urns containing ashes of the dead.
2. one of the niches in such a vault.
3. A dovecote.
4. A pigeonhole in a dovecote.
2. one of the niches in such a vault.
3. A dovecote.
4. A pigeonhole in a dovecote.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
a dovecote; one of the pigeonholes in a dovecote
2. a large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons, particularly those of ancien regime france.
3. a building, a vault or some similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains, or a niche in such a place
2. a large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons, particularly those of ancien regime france.
3. a building, a vault or some similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains, or a niche in such a place
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
A dovecote or pigeon house.
2. A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.
2. A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1.
. A dovecote; a pigeon-house. also columbary.
2. in roman antiquity, a place of sepulture for the ashes of the dead, consisting of arched and square-headed recesses formed in walls, in which the cinerary urns were deposited: so named from the resemblance between these recesses and those formed in a dove-cote for the doves to build their nests in.
3. in architecture, a hole left in a wall for the insertion of the end of a beam. also called putlog-hole.
4. eccles., the columba or dove-shaped pyx. see columba, 3.
2. in roman antiquity, a place of sepulture for the ashes of the dead, consisting of arched and square-headed recesses formed in walls, in which the cinerary urns were deposited: so named from the resemblance between these recesses and those formed in a dove-cote for the doves to build their nests in.
3. in architecture, a hole left in a wall for the insertion of the end of a beam. also called putlog-hole.
4. eccles., the columba or dove-shaped pyx. see columba, 3.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia