columbarium

noun

Definition of columbariumnext
as in mausoleum

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Recent Examples of columbarium Later, the victims’ ashes were interred in a modest columbarium that the priest had built in a Catholic cemetery. — Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026 And the columbarium would have been open to all Irvine residents, with priority given to veterans. — Victoria Le, Oc Register, 16 Jan. 2026 When the base closed, the land passed to the city of Alameda, but one corner was retained by the VA to build a new 158,000-square-foot outpatient clinic and columbarium as a final resting place for Bay Area veterans. — John Ramos, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025 And columbaria – the plural for columbarium – are on the rise in the Diocese of Nashville. — Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 27 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for columbarium
Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbarium
  1. mausoleum
  2. crypt
  3. vault
  4. catacomb
  5. tomb
  6. cemetery
  7. charnel
  8. burial
Noun
  • Carl was buried in a mausoleum at the Woodlawn Memorial Park.
    — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Dean, who died in March 2025, was laid to rest in a mausoleum at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of mausoleum
Noun
  • The Boulet Brothers descend on New York Comic Con to celebrate a decade of horror, filth, and glamour, and open the crypt on the show’s upcoming seventh season.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Call it the canary yellow uniforms in the coal mine — except the Red Sox have shot up the elevator shaft, bursting from their subterranean crypt.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of crypt
Noun
  • Renovate a radiation-oncology vault, modernize the emergency department, build a cardiology clinic, add telehealth at two rural clinics, and deploy mobile mammography.
    — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2026
  • When stored in the cloud, a user’s videos will be kept in what Ring says is effectively a secure digital vault to which only the user has the key.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of vault
Noun
  • During the tournament, access to the space, which is taking over a catacomb once used by players for warmups, has been floated at $120,000 per person.
    — Ben Ryder Howe, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2026
  • But passing motorists largely knew nothing of the collection of handmade replica of catacombs, Biblical scenes and Israelite villages beneath it.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of catacomb
Noun
  • In fact, 58 people were present when King Tut’s tomb was opened, and only eight died within 12 years.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026
  • All three will face a slew of charges, including injuring or removing a tomb or monument, disturbing the contents of a grave or tomb and grand theft, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday.
    — Rylan DiGiacomo-Rapp, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of tomb
Noun
  • Geneticist Shai Carmi, an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has collaborated on an unpublished analysis of another grave from the same cemetery but was not involved in the research on Zosia.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Throughout Porter County, trees that have stood up to 100 years have collapsed in cemeteries, Topoll said.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of cemetery
Noun
  • One is a charnel house dominated by Daniel Day-Lewis’s Bill the Butcher, a man with unnerving knife skills.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • This was also the case in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, which abandoned the novel’s complex (and, importantly, entertaining) moral quandaries in favor of a clock tower colossus doubling as a steam punk charnel house.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026
Definition of charnel
Noun
  • But her ashes are now inside her daughter’s apartment because the family couldn’t afford the more than $10,000 for a burial.
    — Shannon Pettypiece, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Craig and Sarah have each been charged with failure to report a corpse of a child and disturbing a human burial site, both felonies, according to their respective court records.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of burial

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