adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
charnel
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General-American: [tʃɑːɹnəl]
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)nəl
noun
Meaning 2
A chapel attached to a mortuary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A repository for dead bodies.
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noun
Meaning 4
Part of a helm, now usually identified as the hinge (near the neck) by which the helm was secured to the breastplate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones
- ghastly shrieks
- the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: charnel house
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vault, burial vault
History
Etymology
From Middle English charnel, from Old French charnel, carnel, from Late Latin carnāle (“graveyard”), from Latin carnālis, or possibly an alteration of Anglo-Norman charner, from Medieval Latin carnārium (“charnel”). Displaced Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs.
From Old French charnel, from Latin cardinālis (“relating to a hinge”); related to French charnière.
Across languages
Translations
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Esperanto: tomba — relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral