CREMATION CHAMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cremation chamber mean? 

• CREMATION CHAMBER (noun)
  The noun CREMATION CHAMBER has 1 sense:

1. a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes

  Familiarity information: CREMATION CHAMBER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREMATION CHAMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cremation chamber; crematorium; crematory

Hypernyms ("cremation chamber" is a kind of...):

furnace (an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cremation chamber"):

gas oven (a cremation chamber fueled by gas)