Tomb vs Charnel - What's the difference?
tomb | charnel |
A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
* Shakespeare
Of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.
* 1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night)
As nouns the difference between tomb and charnel
is that tomb is block while charnel is a chapel attached to a mortuary.As an adjective charnel is
of or relating to a charnel, deathlike, sepulchral.tomb
English
Noun
(en noun)- As one dead in the bottom of a tomb .
charnel
English
Adjective
()- ''He murmured to himself with dull despair,
- ''Here Faith died, poisoned by this charnel air.