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Definition: Columbarium |
ColumbariumNoun1. A shelter for birds (especially pigeons). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "columbarium" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Synonyms: ColumbariumSynonyms: birdhouse (n), dovecote (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Columbarium |
| English words defined with "columbarium": Columbaria. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "columbarium": Columbary. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Crematory, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. Columbarium I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Columbarium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Columbarium" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
columbarium | 58 |
columbarium francisco san | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "columbarium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | fole pëllumbash, çerdhe (den, hideout, nest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хранилище на урни в крематориум, гълъбарник (dovecot, loft, pigeonry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kolumbárium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | galambdúc (Cote, dovecot, dovecote, loft, pigeon-hole, pigeonry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | colombario. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thie calmane (pigeon house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olumbariumcay columbário. (various references) колумбарий, голубятня (dovecot, dovecote, loft, pigeonry). (various references) odaje za urne s pepelom. (various references) palomera (dovecote, pigeon house). (various references) kolumbarium, duvslag (dovecot, dovecote, loft, pigeonry). (various references) колумбарій (cinerarium, necropolis), голуб'ятниик. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Columbarium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calendarium, coloumbarium, columbarius, columbrium. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "columbarium" (pronounced 'Col`um*ba"ri*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-l-m-m-o-r-u-u" | |
-2 letters: columbium. | |
-3 letters: cimbalom. | |
-4 letters: aboulic, baculum, cambium, caribou, clamour, crumbum, immoral. | |
-5 letters: abulic, bailor, barium, bromal, bromic, brumal, burial, caroli, clamor, corium, crambo, cumuli, curial, curium, imbalm, labium, labour, labrum, lorica, lubric, lumbar, mimbar, morula, ocular, umbral, uracil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-l-m-m-o-r-u-u" | |
+5 letters: circumambulation. | |
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