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A container, receptacle, or building, such as an urn or vault, for holding the bones of the dead.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: charnel house
Antonyms: none provided
any receptacle for the burial of human bones
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: receptacle
From Late Latin ossuārium (“charnel house”), from ossuārius (“of or for bones”), from compound of Latin os (“bone”) + adjectival suffix -ārius (“of, related to”).
Across languages
Translations
62 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
ոսկրատուն
(oskratun)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Armenian:
ոսկրանոց
(oskranocʻ)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Old Armenian:
արկղ
(arkł)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Basque:
hezurtegi
— a place where the dead are buried
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Belarusian:
асуа́рый
(asuáryj)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Bulgarian:
костница
(kostnica)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Catalan:
ossera
— a place where the dead are buried
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Catalan:
ossari
— a place where the dead are buried
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Chinese Cantonese:
藏骨堂
(cong4 gwat1 tong4)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Chinese Mandarin:
骨穴
(gǔxué)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Chinese Mandarin:
藏古堂
(cánggǔtáng)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Chinese Mandarin:
骨罐
(gǔguàn)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Czech:
kostnice
— a place where the dead are buried
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Dutch:
ossuarium
— a place where the dead are buried
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Dutch:
knekelhuis
— a place where the dead are buried
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Esperanto:
ostejo
— a place where the dead are buried
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Finnish:
ossuaari
— a place where the dead are buried
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Finnish:
luuhuone
— a place where the dead are buried
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French:
ossuaire
— a place where the dead are buried
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Friulian:
ossari
— a place where the dead are buried
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German:
Beinhaus
— a place where the dead are buried
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German:
Ossarium
— a place where the dead are buried
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German:
Karner
— a place where the dead are buried
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Greek:
οστεοφυλάκιο
(osteofylákio)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Hungarian:
osszuárium
— a place where the dead are buried
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Icelandic:
beinabúr
— a place where the dead are buried
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Icelandic:
beinaklefi
— a place where the dead are buried
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Icelandic:
beinahús
— a place where the dead are buried
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Indonesian:
osuari
— a place where the dead are buried
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Italian:
ossario
— a place where the dead are buried
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Japanese:
納骨堂
(nōkotsudō)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Japanese:
骨壷
(kotsutsubo)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Kapampangan:
osuariu
— a place where the dead are buried
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Kapampangan:
oswaryu
— a place where the dead are buried
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Kapampangan:
balebutul
— a place where the dead are buried
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Korean:
봉안당
(bong'andang)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Korean:
납골당
(napgoldang)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Korean:
골당
(goldang)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Latin:
ossuārium
— a place where the dead are buried
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Macedonian:
косту́рница
(kostúrnica)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Manx:
shamyr chraueyn
— a place where the dead are buried
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Māori:
toma
— a place where the dead are buried
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Classical Nahuatl:
omicalli
— a place where the dead are buried
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Norwegian:
ossuarium
— a place where the dead are buried
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Polish:
ossarium
— a place where the dead are buried
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Polish:
ossuarium
— a place where the dead are buried
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Portuguese:
ossário
— a place where the dead are buried
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Portuguese:
ossuário
— a place where the dead are buried
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Romanian:
osuar
— a place where the dead are buried
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Russian:
оссуа́рий
(ossuárij)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Russian:
ко́стница
(kóstnica)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Serbo-Croatian:
ко̀стӯрница
— a place where the dead are buried
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Serbo-Croatian:
kòstūrnica
— a place where the dead are buried
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Slovak:
karner
— a place where the dead are buried
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Slovak:
kostnica
— a place where the dead are buried
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Slovene:
kostnica
— a place where the dead are buried
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Spanish:
osario
— a place where the dead are buried
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Swedish:
ossuarium
— a place where the dead are buried
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Swedish:
benhus
— a place where the dead are buried
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Swedish:
benurna
— a place where the dead are buried
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Ukrainian:
осуа́рій
(osuárij)
— a place where the dead are buried
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Ukrainian:
кістни́ця
(kistnýcja)
— a place where the dead are buried