ossuary

1. 1.

   any receptacle for the burial of human bones

   Broaderreceptacle

Other forms of ossuary

plural

ossuaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ossuary

What does ossuary mean?

ossuary means "any receptacle for the burial of human bones".

How many syllables are in ossuary?

ossuary has 4 syllables and divides as os-su-a-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.