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We have become the charnel house of the Western World.
William Kunstler

Meaning of "charnel house" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CHARNEL HOUSE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHARNEL HOUSE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Charnel house is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CHARNEL HOUSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

charnel house

Charnel house

A charnel house is a vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored. They are often built near churches for depositing bones that are unearthed while digging graves. The term can also be used more generally as a description of a place filled with death and destruction.

Definition of charnel house in the English dictionary

The definition of charnel house in the dictionary is a building or vault where corpses or bones are deposited.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHARNEL HOUSE

charmful
Charminar
charming
charmingly
charmless
charmlessly
charmonia
charmonium
charneco
charnel
Charnley
Charolais
Charon
charoset
charpai
Charpentier
charpie
charpoy
charqui
charquid

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHARNEL HOUSE

beach house
clubhouse
courthouse
detached house
farmhouse
greenhouse
guesthouse
house
house-to-house
in-house
lady of the house
lighthouse
mouse
on the house
open house
opera house
penthouse
powerhouse
steakhouse
warehouse
Winehouse

Synonyms and antonyms of charnel house in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «charnel house» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHARNEL HOUSE

Find out the translation of charnel house to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of charnel house from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «charnel house» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

藏尸家
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

osario
570 millions of speakers

English

charnel house
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मेहराबदार छत से युक्त घर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مقبرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

склеп
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ossuário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৃত ব্যক্তিদের অস্থি রাখার স্থান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

charnier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rumah charnel
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Beinhaus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

納骨堂
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

납골당
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

House charnel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhà mồ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சன்னல் வீடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चेनेल हाऊस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Şaron evi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ossario
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kostnica dom
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

склеп
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

osuar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οστεοφυλάκιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

soortgelyk huis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

charnel hus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

likhus
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of charnel house

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHARNEL HOUSE»

The term «charnel house» is regularly used and occupies the 107.118 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHARNEL HOUSE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about charnel house

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QUOTES WITH «CHARNEL HOUSE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word charnel house.
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William Kunstler
We have become the charnel house of the Western World.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHARNEL HOUSE»

Discover the use of charnel house in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to charnel house and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Charnel House
When Seymour Willis told people his house was breathing, they thought he was crazy--until they heard it for themselves.
Graham Masterton, 1988
2
The charnel house
"Painfully truthful...wise prose.
Eamonn McGrath, 1990
3
Charnel House Blues: The Vampyre's Tale
Chapter. Nine. 20th. Century. 'Charnel. House'. Blues. I've lost count ofthe numberof years I'vewalked this earth as a vampire, but the mostfruitful werethose duringthe 18th and 19th centuries, up to the belle époque – that period of twenty  ...
Suzanne Ruthven, 2014
4
The Cabinet of Curiosities: A Novel
In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, 2002
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The Early Bronze Age I Tombs and Burials of Bâb Edh-Dhrâ', ...
CHARNEL HOUSE DEVELOPMENT IN EB IB As we have indicated in Chapters 1 and 4, the current archaeological evidence suggests that the EB IA people at Bab edh-Dhra' may not have been permanent residents of the site. However, by ...
Donald J. Ortner, Bruno Frohlich, 2008
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Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command
Without some such condition it seems unintelligible that the instruction given in Latin can be advantageously commenced at once as it is at present Memorandum respecting the Old Chantry or Charnel House at King's Lynn, and the ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1869
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The city of the Great King: or, Jerusalem as it was, as it ...
From another part of the valley at the left hand, near from below was a charnel- house, which was called Aceldamah. There they buried the pilgrims who died at the Hospital of Jerusalem. This valley where were some charnel-houses where ...
James Turner Barclay, 1858
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The Calberi Mansion
HouSe............. The Charnel House was where the people who would wind up in the Forbidden lake or the Forbidden Forest, was where the remains would end up. and that was where Mr. Kenneth's remains where hiding in the Charnel House.
Deni Jo Massey, 2011
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Indian Tertiary and Post Tertiary Vertebrata ..: pt. 1. ...
13a was obtained from bed Cb in the Cathedral ; and there is another specimen from bed B in the Charnel-House. Mandible. — Mandibular rami are comparatively common, and have been obtained from beds well down in the series in both ...
Geological Survey of India, Robert Bruce Foote, Richard Lydekker, 1902
10
William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life
Gradually this dwelling fell into decay, and in time it became a charnel-house. An immense quantity of bones accumulated there, we leam from a late-seventeenth- century report; enough to load a great number of wagons.7 It was already a ...
Samuel Schoenbaum, 1987

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHARNEL HOUSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term charnel house is used in the context of the following news items.
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22 years on, Doom retains the ability to shock
... Massacre which are like spending the night in a charnel house. They do touch some awful nerve. And the more forbidden, the more alluring.". «Eurogamer.net, Jul 15»
2
Burning Children and the Duty to Resist
... for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. «American Muslim, Jul 15»
3
'Sick at Heart': The Lonely Radicalism of the Catonsville Nine
... for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. «Pacific Standard, Jul 15»
4
O'Doherty... Migrants in the Med: why devil is in the detail
... tight-lipped about their role in creating ISIS and causing the humanitarian disaster that is rapidly becoming an apocalyptic charnel house. «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
5
No flowers, please
It is the stench of civic corruption and corrosive incompetence that has converted Karachi into a commercial charnel house. There was a taste of ... «DhakaTribune, Jul 15»
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Book Review: The Battle of Messines Road is an interesting hybrid …
He finds comfort in a friendship with the old man who himself finds catharsis in reliving his experiences in the charnel house of Flanders. «The National, Jul 15»
7
Flag's time has passed
... who supported Jim Crow and turned fire hoses on children, and by the man accused turning a Charleston church into a charnel house. «Columbus Dispatch, Jun 15»
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Owl Cave Interview: Ashton Raze Talks Favorite Video Game …
Similar threads of horror, adventure, and mystery run through The Charnel House Trilogy, Richard and Alice, and Masked, thematically uniting these Owl Cave ... «Game Rant, Jun 15»
9
The problem with 'True Detective'
We're not going to be happy with a repeat of last summer, with that truly cliched chase in a backwoods charnel house and one of our “heroes” ... «MinnPost, Jun 15»
10
Defense Tries to Put Focus on Sanity of Aurora Gunman
... turned Theater 9 into a charnel house. The defense did not cross-examine any of them, and is expected to guide the focus of the trial away ... «New York Times, Jun 15»

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