Definitions for charnel



Overview of noun charnel

The noun charnel has 1 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) charnel house, charnel

(a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited)


Overview of adj charnel

The adj charnel has 1 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. charnel, ghastly, sepulchral

(gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs")

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