columbaria

Definition of columbarianext
plural of columbarium

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbaria
Noun
  • The film includes scenes shot in memorial sites and underground crypts, still home to victims’ remains, spaces that pushed Rolland to navigate the line between the character and herself as a Rwandan woman.
    Essie Assibu, Variety, 12 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • For months, mausoleums in the graveyard, some more than a hundred years old, were being looted in the dead of night, police said.
    Gaya Gupta, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Meanwhile, at Mount Moriah, the graves Gerlach allegedly prayed on are old, ornate mausoleums and large crypt-like vaults, many from the 1800s.
    Joe Holden, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • His only book, Portraits in Life and Death (1976), juxtaposed photos of people in his circle and with images of ancient corpses in the Palermo catacombs.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
  • For a darker experience in the City of Light, venture beneath Paris and explore its hundreds of miles of catacombs.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For an additional fee, guests can opt for a tennis package, which includes ninety minutes with a tennis pro on the club’s rare grass courts, two swag bags with ITHF merch, and a private tour of the grounds and museum vaults.
    Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Instead of storing silver themselves, investors can buy shares of the ETF, which holds silver in vaults and reflects changes in the metal's market price, minus fees.
    Mike Winters, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Between 2022 and 2024, the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology excavated a series of ancient tombs in the Jiali Village of Zi’an.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 12 Jan. 2026
  • On the moors, cliffs, and hills there are wind farms; oil terminals; small farms, some of which have been there for many centuries; ruined medieval churches and hermitages; and prehistoric settlements, tombs, and monuments.
    Sarah Moss, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • They were given 45 minutes to get as many coffins into graves as possible.
    Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Meanwhile, at Mount Moriah, the graves Gerlach allegedly prayed on are old, ornate mausoleums and large crypt-like vaults, many from the 1800s.
    Joe Holden, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
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“Columbaria.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbaria. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.

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