"columbarium" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: columbariums [plural], columbaria [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin columbārium, from columba (“pigeon”) + -ārium (“place for”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|columbārium}} Latin columbārium, {{af|la|columba|-ārium|gloss1=pigeon|gloss2=place for|nocat=1}} columba (“pigeon”) + -ārium (“place for”) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|columbaria}} columbarium (plural columbariums or columbaria)
  1. (historical) A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Animal dwellings Synonyms: dovecote Translations (a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves): περιστερεών (peristereṓn) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), colomar [masculine] (Catalan), duivenhuis [neuter] (Dutch), columbarium [neuter] (Dutch), Taubenhaus [neuter] (German), Taubenschlag [neuter] (German), Kolumbarium [neuter] (German), Columbarium [neuter] (German), περιστερώνας (peristerónas) [masculine] (Greek), kolumbario (Ido), colmlann [feminine] (Irish), colombario [masculine] (Italian), columbarium [neuter] (Latin), کبوترخانه (kabutarxâne) (Persian), porumbar [neuter] (Romanian), голубя́тня (golubjátnja) [feminine] (Russian), palomar [masculine] (Spanish), duvslag [neuter] (Swedish), голубни́к (holubnýk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), colomendy [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-columbarium-en-noun-pJcL9hWX Disambiguation of Animal dwellings: 39 32 12 18 Disambiguation of 'a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves': 61 4 11 24
  2. A pigeonhole in such a dovecote. Categories (topical): Animal dwellings
    Sense id: en-columbarium-en-noun-5gA10zs5 Disambiguation of Animal dwellings: 39 32 12 18
  3. A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains. Categories (topical): Animal dwellings, Burial Synonyms: cinerarium Translations (a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns): columbari [masculine] (Catalan), 納骨塔 (Chinese Mandarin), 纳骨塔 (nàgǔtǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), columbarium [neuter] (Dutch), uurnaholvi (Finnish), kolumbaario (Finnish), columbarium [masculine] (French), Urnenhalle [feminine] (German), Kolumbarium [neuter] (German), Columbarium [neuter] (German), τεφροφυλάκιο (tefrofylákio) [neuter] (Greek), kolumbario (Ido), colombario [masculine] (Italian), 納骨堂 (nōkotsudō) (alt: のうこつどう) (Japanese), kolumbarium [neuter] (Polish), columbar [neuter] (Romanian), колумба́рий (kolumbárij) [masculine] (Russian), columbario [masculine] (Spanish), kolumbarium [neuter] (Swedish), kolumbaryum (Turkish), колумба́рій (kolumbárij) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-columbarium-en-noun-y5tzVQMN Disambiguation of Animal dwellings: 39 32 12 18 Disambiguation of Burial: 14 3 69 14 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 3 44 27 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 26 5 45 24 Disambiguation of 'a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns': 6 1 84 9
  4. A niche in such a building for housing urns. Categories (topical): Animal dwellings
    Sense id: en-columbarium-en-noun-TE4BLcqo Disambiguation of Animal dwellings: 39 32 12 18

Inflected forms

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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin columbārium, from columba (“pigeon”) + -ārium (“place for”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "columbariums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "columbaria",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "columbaria"
      },
      "expansion": "columbarium (plural columbariums or columbaria)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1885, Philip Smith, History of the World from the Creation to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, volume 2",
          "text": "Their sides present the well-known appearance of the Roman columbaria (dove-cotes), but with the important difference, that they are adapted to contain coffins instead of urns, the holes being about 2 feet square and 6 feet deep.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Leonard Swidler, Biblical Affirmations of Woman, page 61",
          "text": "Doves were culticly protected; great towers were built for them in which they could nest; they were called columbaria (columba is the Latin word for dove).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Stanley Graham, Barnoldswich, page 34",
          "text": "Fish ponds were stocked with netted fish during the summer as a source of protein and dove cotes, or as the Romans called them, 'columbariums', were another.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pigeon",
          "pigeon"
        ],
        [
          "dove",
          "dove"
        ],
        [
          "ancien regime",
          "ancien regime"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dovecote"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A pigeonhole in such a dovecote."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pigeonhole",
          "pigeonhole"
        ],
        [
          "dovecote",
          "dovecote"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1873, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, anonymous translator, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense, translation of original in German, part 2",
          "text": "We have seen how it is originally language which works on the construction of concepts, a labor taken over in later ages by science. Just as the bee simultaneously constructs cells and fills them with honey, so science works unceasingly on this great columbarium of concepts, the graveyard of perceptions.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Douglas Keister, Stories in Stone, Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, →OCLC, page 13",
          "text": "The columbarium (vaults lined with recesses for cinerary urns) in the form of a grotto (a cave-like structure) is the centerpiece of the Elks plot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vault",
          "vault"
        ],
        [
          "cinerary",
          "cinerary"
        ],
        [
          "urn",
          "urn"
        ],
        [
          "cremate",
          "cremate"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cinerarium"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A niche in such a building for housing urns."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "niche",
          "niche"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "colomar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "duivenhuis"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "columbarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Taubenhaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Taubenschlag"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Kolumbarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Columbarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "peristerónas",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "περιστερώνας"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "peristereṓn",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "περιστερεών"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "word": "kolumbario"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "colmlann"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "colombario"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "columbarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kabutarxâne",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "word": "کبوترخانه"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "porumbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "golubjátnja",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "голубя́тня"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "palomar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "duvslag"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "holubnýk",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "голубни́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "colomendy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "columbari"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "word": "納骨塔"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "nàgǔtǎ",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "word": "纳骨塔"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "columbarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "word": "uurnaholvi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "word": "kolumbaario"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "columbarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Urnenhalle"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Kolumbarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Columbarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "tefrofylákio",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "τεφροφυλάκιο"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "word": "kolumbario"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "colombario"
    },
    {
      "alt": "のうこつどう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nōkotsudō",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "word": "納骨堂"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kolumbarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "columbar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kolumbárij",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "колумба́рий"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "columbario"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kolumbarium"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "word": "kolumbaryum"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kolumbárij",
      "sense": "a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "колумба́рій"
    }
  ],
  "word": "columbarium"
}

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