CHARNEL HOUSE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does charnel house mean? 

• CHARNEL HOUSE (noun)
  The noun CHARNEL HOUSE has 1 sense:

1. a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited

  Familiarity information: CHARNEL HOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHARNEL HOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

charnel; charnel house

Hypernyms ("charnel house" is a kind of...):

burial vault; vault (a burial chamber (usually underground))