columbarium

English - Turkish

Definition of columbarium in English Turkish dictionary: güvercinlik

English - English

Definition of columbarium in English English dictionary: a large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons, particularly those of ancien regime France; a dovecote; one of the pigeonholes in a dovecote; a building, a vault or some similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains, or a niche in such a place
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.; A structured cemetery feature containing many niches for the permanent memorialization of urns containing cremated human remains; a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead; A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns; A building constructed with many niches to house cremated remains; a type of vault with spaces for storing urns containing ashes (cremains); {i} burial chamber with recesses for holding cinerary urns; (Archaic) dovecote, pigeonry; A structure with niches (small spaces) for placing cremated remains in urns or other approved containers It may be outdoors or part of a mausoleum; A structure of vaults lined with recesses for urns containing cremated remains; A columbarium was originally a dovecote Modern morticians gave the name to a building with hundreds of little niches in the wall for urns holding cremated remains; Tomb with small niches to hold ashes, like a dove cote; A dovecote or pigeon house; a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead; a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns; A structure or building used for the placement of urns (see Niche)