charnel house

1. 1.

   a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited

   Synonymscharnel

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Questions about charnel house

What does charnel house mean?

charnel house means "a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited".

What is another word for charnel house?

Close synonyms include charnel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is charnel house a common word?

charnel house is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.