"charnel house" meaning in All languages combined

See charnel house on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: charnel houses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} charnel house (plural charnel houses)
  1. A vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored. Wikipedia link: charnel house Synonyms: crypt, ossuary, charnel-house Translations (vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored): Beinhaus [neuter] (German), Karner [masculine] (German), Ossuarium [neuter] (German), ossuārium [neuter] (Latin), косту́рница (kostúrnica) [feminine] (Macedonian), karner [masculine] (Polish), osuar [neuter] (Romanian), osario [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "charnel houses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "charnel house (plural charnel houses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Latin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, “Ghosts of the Charnel House”, performed by Primordial:",
          "text": "It's words cast long - long shadows\n From the doorway of the Charnel House\n The ghosts of the Charnel House\n They were born to deathless guilt\n The ghosts of the Charnel House\n They were born to shameful night",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored."
      ],
      "id": "en-charnel_house-en-noun-siJU0~so",
      "links": [
        [
          "vault",
          "vault"
        ],
        [
          "building",
          "building"
        ],
        [
          "bone",
          "bone"
        ],
        [
          "dead",
          "dead"
        ],
        [
          "stored",
          "stored"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "crypt"
        },
        {
          "word": "ossuary"
        },
        {
          "word": "charnel-house"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Beinhaus"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Karner"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Ossuarium"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ossuārium"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "kostúrnica",
          "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "косту́рница"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "karner"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "osuar"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "osario"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "charnel house"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "charnel house"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "charnel houses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "charnel house (plural charnel houses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Latin translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, “Ghosts of the Charnel House”, performed by Primordial:",
          "text": "It's words cast long - long shadows\n From the doorway of the Charnel House\n The ghosts of the Charnel House\n They were born to deathless guilt\n The ghosts of the Charnel House\n They were born to shameful night",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vault",
          "vault"
        ],
        [
          "building",
          "building"
        ],
        [
          "bone",
          "bone"
        ],
        [
          "dead",
          "dead"
        ],
        [
          "stored",
          "stored"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "crypt"
        },
        {
          "word": "ossuary"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "charnel house"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "charnel-house"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Beinhaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Karner"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Ossuarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ossuārium"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kostúrnica",
      "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "косту́рница"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "karner"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "osuar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "osario"
    }
  ],
  "word": "charnel house"
}

Download raw JSONL data for charnel house meaning in All languages combined (2.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.