charnel English

Meaning charnel meaning

What does charnel mean?

charnel

— noun (= charnel house) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited

— adjective (= ghastly, sepulchral) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones ghastly shrieks the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs

Synonyms charnel synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as charnel?

charnel English » English

charnel house

ghastly

sepulchral

mortuary

morgue

dead room

Topics charnel topics

What do people use charnel to talk about?

Person Life Die

Grave

• What words refer to a place where many bodies are buried?
  cemetery churchyard graveyard mausoleum mass grave burial ground charnel house