English Dictionary

columbarium

名詞

歴史的

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

日本語の意味

（歴史的な用法）旧体制フランスなどに見られる、鳩やハトの大群を収容するための、大きく時に建築美を兼ね備えた建物。または、そのような鳩小屋内の個別の収容室を指す。

The 18th-century estate featured an ornate columbarium where dozens of doves nested in carved niches.

18世紀の邸宅には、彫刻の施された巣穴に何十羽もの鳩が巣を作る華やかな鳩小屋がありました。

意味（1）

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

Their sides present the well-known appearance of the Roman columbaria (dove-cotes), but with the important difference, that they are adapted to contain coffins instead of urns, the holes being about 2 feet square and 6 feet deep.

意味（2）

A pigeonhole in such a dovecote.

意味（3）

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

We have seen how it is originally language which works on the construction of concepts, a labor taken over in later ages by science. Just as the bee simultaneously constructs cells and fills them with honey, so science works unceasingly on this great columbarium of concepts, the graveyard of perceptions.

意味（4）

A niche in such a building for housing urns.

columbariums （ plural ）

columbaria （ plural ）