Charnel vs. Ossuary — What's the Difference?

Short for charnel house

An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce.

Associated with death

A container or receptacle, such as an urn or a vault, for holding the bones of the dead.

A repository for the bones or bodies of the dead; a charnel house.

A container, receptacle, or building, such as an urn or vault, for holding the bones of the dead.

Resembling, suggesting, or suitable for receiving the dead.

A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house.

A chapel attached to a mortuary.

Any receptacle for the burial of human bones

A repository for dead bodies.

(historical) Part of a helm, now usually identified as the hinge (near the neck) by which the helm was secured to the breastplate.

Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.

Containing the bodies of the dead.

A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.

A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited

Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead;