charnels

noun

variants also charnel houses
plural of charnel
as in tombs

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  1. tombs
  2. vaults
  3. crypts
  4. coffins
Noun
  • Nearby was the city’s Jewish graveyard, where the tombs are laid out around a steep flight of steps.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The Valley of the Kings and the tombs of Tutankhamun and Seti I.
    — Guy Bigiaoui, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of tombs
Noun
  • Nature’s underground vaults Scaling hydrogen into a major energy source depends largely on securing viable, high-capacity storage sites.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Swift’s propensity for clearing her musical vaults answers to a more-is-better audience ethos.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of vaults
Noun
  • At Penzing Studios, the open-air museum at Bad Windsheim, the fortress at Lichtenau, and sites in Nuremberg, the production found medieval stonework, corridors, chapels, crypts, and staircases suited to the royal court.
    — JP Mangalindan, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
  • One captures a white concrete community mausoleum, its crypts often empty, like absent teeth cavities, its coffins stolen presumably for anything valuable inside.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
Definition of crypts
Noun
  • Those beliefs have long shaped the role of traditional coffins in Chinese funeral customs.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • After the church service, the crowd climbed up a steep hill and followed the hearses transporting the coffins to a nearby cemetery.
    — Evens Sanon, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of coffins
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