Columbarium vs. Vault — What's the Difference?

A columbarium (; pl. columbaria) is a structure for the respectful and usually public storage of funerary urns, holding cremated remains of the deceased.

An arched structure, usually of masonry or concrete, serving to cover a space.

A vault with niches for urns containing ashes of the dead.

An arched overhead covering, such as the sky, that resembles the architectural structure in form.

One of the niches in such a vault.

A room or space, such as a cellar or storeroom, with an arched ceiling, especially when underground.

A dovecote.

A room or compartment, often built of steel, for the safekeeping of valuables

A pigeonhole in a dovecote.

A burial chamber, especially when underground.

(historical) A large, sometimes architecturally impressive building for housing a large colony of pigeons or doves, particularly those of ancien regime France.

(Anatomy) An arched part of the body, especially the top part of the skull.

A pigeonhole in such a dovecote.

The act of vaulting; a jump.

A building, a vault or a similar place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns containing cremated remains.

A piece of gymnastic equipment with an upholstered body used especially for vaulting. Also called vaulting horse.

A niche in such a building for housing urns.

To construct or supply with an arched ceiling; cover with a vault.

A dovecote or pigeon house.

To build or make in the shape of a vault; arch.

A niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead

To jump or leap over, especially with the aid of a support such as the hands or a pole.

A sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns

To jump or leap, especially with the use of the hands or a pole.

To accomplish something suddenly or vigorously

An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.

Any arched ceiling or roof.

Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.

The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and church crypts.

Any cellar or underground storeroom.

Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.

The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.

Any archive of past content.

(computing) An encrypted digital archive.

An underground or covered conduit for water or waste; a drain; a sewer.

An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit.

A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.

An act of vaulting, formerly by deer; a leap or jump.

(gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.

(gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.

(equestrianism) volte: a circular movement by the horse.

(gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.

(transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.

(ambitransitive) To jump or leap over.

An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.

An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, used for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.

The canopy of heaven; the sky.

A leap or bound.

To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, to vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.

To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.

To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.

To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.

A burial chamber (usually underground)

A strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables

An arched brick or stone ceiling or roof

The act of jumping over an obstacle

Jump across or leap over (an obstacle)

Bound vigorously