Associations to the word «Columbarium»

Wiktionary

COLUMBARIUM, noun. A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France; a dovecote.
COLUMBARIUM, noun. A pigeonhole in such a dovecote.
COLUMBARIUM, noun. (by extension) A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains
COLUMBARIUM, noun. A niche in such a building for housing urns.

Dictionary definition

COLUMBARIUM, noun. A birdhouse for pigeons.
COLUMBARIUM, noun. A niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead.
COLUMBARIUM, noun. A sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns.

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