columbarium

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌkɒləmˈbɛəɹi.əm/    美 /ˌkɑləmˈbɛri.əm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A columbary, especially a large and architecturally impressive one for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, such as those in ancien régime France. historical
    — Meronym: pigeonhole
  2. A pigeonhole in such a dovecote.
  3. A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains.
    — We have seen how it is originally language which works on the construction of concepts, a labor taken over in later ages by science. Just as the bee simultaneously constructs cells and fills them with honey, so science works unceasingly on this great columbarium of concepts, the graveyard of perceptions.
  4. A niche in such a building for housing urns.

词形变化

columbariums plural columbaria plural

词汇关系

相关词
Columba columbine Columbus

词源

Borrowed from Latin columbārium, from columba (“pigeon”) + -ārium (“place for”).
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