charnel
pronunciation
How to pronounce charnel in British English:
UK ['tʃɑ:nəl]
How to pronounce charnel in American English:
US ['tʃɑnəl]
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- Noun:
- a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
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- Adjective:
- gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
Word Origin
- charnel
- charnel: see carnal
- charnel (adj.)
- late 14c., from Old French charnel (12c.) "fleshly," from Late Latin carnale "graveyard," properly neuter of adjective carnalis (see carnal). As an adjective from 1813. The Late Latin word was glossed in Old English as flæschus "flesh-house." Charnel house is attested from 1550s.
Example
- 1. This is no charnel house to kill people as you want .
- 2. Charnel those tasks that do , there is no task raiders .
- 3. A charnel house of memories torn and burning melancholy shall embrace me now .
- 4. In this charnel house called rome ?
- 5. Why had germany long one of the most ostensibly civilized highly educated societies on earth transformed itself into an instrument that turned a continent into a charnel house ?