Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place for keeping the ashes of a cremated body.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In archaeology, a niche in the wall of a tomb designed to receive a cinerary urn; hence, any niche in the wall of a tomb, even when large enough to receive a sarcophagus. Ancient tombs were often provided with cineraria in three or even all of their side walls.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place or receptacle for depositing the
ashes ofcremated people
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Looking up the word “curriculum” — which I am always sure begins c-i — led me to “cinerarium: a place to receive the ashes of the cremated dead.”
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Looking up the word “curriculum” — which I am always sure begins c-i — led me to “cinerarium: a place to receive the ashes of the cremated dead.”
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Looking up the word “curriculum” — which I am always sure begins c-i — led me to “cinerarium: a place to receive the ashes of the cremated dead.”
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Those of the first had no value; the second contained a gold ring without its stone, -- which was found, however, in the third cinerarium; a most extraordinary circumstance.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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The boylike of conium had been bistroic, swingy, and its no cinerarium i had the sex burnability of a vinogradoff leptotyphlopidae.
Rational Review 2009
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