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Definition: Charnel House |
Charnel HouseNoun1. A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Charnel HouseSynonym: charnel (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interment | Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Charnel House |
| English words defined with "charnel house": Carnary ♦ Ossuarium, Ossuary ♦ Uncharnel. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Charnel House (2001) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
charnel house | 9 |
charnel house king stephen | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "charnel house"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gropë e varrit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | костница (ossuary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kostnice. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | charnier, ossuaire (charnel-house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νεκροφυλακείο (morgue, mortuary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csontház. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ossario (ossuary, war memorial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 納骨 (crypt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | のう"つどう (crypt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ulley. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arnelchay ousehay osuar (ossuary). (various references) склеп (burial vault, charnel-house, crypt, ossuary, repository, vault). (various references) mrtvačnica (deadhouse, morgue, mortuary). (various references) bårhus (morgue, mortuary). (various references) cesetlerin koyulduğu yer, ölü kemiklerinin koyulduğu yer (ossuary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Charnel House" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chartel house. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-h-l-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: houseclean, relaunches. | |
-3 letters: aleurones, ceruleans, enclosure, eulachons, herculean, housecarl, larcenous, launchers, lecherous. | |
-4 letters: alehouse, aleurone, aleurons, aureoles, carousel, cerulean, chalones, charnels, choleras, chorales, cleaners, cleanser, coenures, consular, courlans, echelons, elenchus, enchaser, encloser, enhaloes, ensorcel, escarole, eulachon, hachures, haunches, henhouse, hercules, lacunose, launcher, launches, leachers, lucarnes, lucernes, lunchers, nacreous, neurosal, nuclease, raunches, rechosen, recleans. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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