English to Shona Meaning of charnel - charnel

Charnel :

charnel

Share This

Definitions of charnel in English

Noun(1) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
Adjective(1) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead

Examples of charnel in English

(1) It is argued, based on archaeological and ethnohistoric data, that the layout of the mound, burials, and charnel features is patterned after Native American notions of the cosmos.(2) A charnel stench filled the air and made them recoil in disgust.(3) Between them both sides lost half a million men and how many still lie buried in that charnel soil may never be known.(4) Undoubtedly the charnel features had many other meanings to the people who used them, ones that leave no archaeologically identifiable traces.(5) The charnel was pulled down after the Reformation.(6) These charnel facilities consisted of a shallow limestone-lined pit, made from a single layer of horizontal slabs that were laid out on a prepared subsoil surface.(7) The symbolic suitability of dark and dismal weather, however, is not the main reason Mary Shelley selected this particular month for the nativity of Victor's charnel creature.(8) Some say it was merely a charnel pit - a functional repository of massed human bone.(9) A foul odor of decaying flesh permeated the air of this subterranean charnel chamber.(10) Most knights' bones never got into charnels ; they were safely enclosed in tombs inside a church.

Related Phrases of charnel

(1) charnel house ::

charnel imba

Related Phrases of charnel

(1) charnel house ::

charnel imba

Synonyms

Noun

1. charnel house ::

charnel imba

Adjective

2. sepulchral ::

sepulchral

3. ghastly ::

ghastly

English to Shona Dictionary: charnel

Meaning and definitions of charnel, translation in Shona language for charnel with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of charnel in Shona and in English language.

Tags for the entry 'charnel'

What charnel means in Shona, charnel meaning in Shona, charnel definition, examples and pronunciation of charnel in Shona language.

English to Shona Dictionary: charnel

Meaning and definitions of charnel, translation in Shona language for charnel with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of charnel in Shona and in English language.

Tags for the entry 'charnel'

What charnel means in Shona, charnel meaning in Shona, charnel definition, examples and pronunciation of charnel in Shona language.