What's the difference between cemetery and columbarium?

Cemetery


Definition:

  • (n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
  • (2) Finally, a postscript offers a parallel between the writings of Charles Dickens and the pauper cemetery.
  • (3) Pathological changes indicate that the cemetery contained individuals representing two slave occupational groups, house servants and laborers.
  • (4) The purpose of this paper is to present a Mediaeval skeleton of an approximately 16 year old boy, which was excavated at a Danish cemetery containing ca.
  • (5) By the afternoon of the day of the Smolensk catastrophe, the candles that were usually found in cemeteries on the margins of town had appeared en masse in public spaces in the heart of Warsaw.
  • (6) The family climbed in on either side and drove about a half mile up the road to a cemetery.
  • (7) Numerous authors have studied human cemetery remains with an eye toward identifying different socially stratified ethnic or kinship groups within the same population.
  • (8) Have you ever been to Arlington cemetery?” Khizr asked, a question that remains unanswered.
  • (9) Today, the man who famously claimed "I filled a cemetery all by myself".
  • (10) The cemetery is hidden among the rural woods and hills of Caroline County about 30 miles north of Richmond and contains only 47 graves in all.
  • (11) At least one neighbor was unaware the cemetery was even there.
  • (12) There was a security cordon around the cemetery, where a high-level government delegation including the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, stood on a stage draped in red and black and addressed a small crowd through loudspeakers.
  • (13) A spokesman for the Danish Islamic Burial Fund objected to Hussein being buried at a cemetery run by his group.
  • (14) We made a mass prayers for the ten bodies and then buried them in Martyrs cemetery.
  • (15) Cemetery remains exposed through vandalism or natural phenomena are frequently brought to the attention of law enforcement agents or medical examiners.
  • (16) It is not clear if the cemetery's excavation was a warning signal from the guards to the government about a softeneing in its stance towards minorities.
  • (17) "Some people built tombs to steal archaeology, definitely," said 28-year-old Walid Ibrahim, picnicking on the boundary between the old and new cemeteries.
  • (18) I've steeled myself to ask her on what ground she wants to be buried, in which cemetery."
  • (19) Most of us who have lived in Canberra for any time have stood out there amid whipping winds or under a baking sun at the Australian capital's biggest cemetery.
  • (20) Eighteen pairs of mandible measures were evaluated according to sex on europide skulls coming from south-eastern Hungarian cemeteries of the X-XII., centuries in order to disclose possible measure differences between the left and right side.

Columbarium


Definition:

  • (n.) A dovecote or pigeon house.
  • (n.) A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alternatively, there is an average five-year wait for a small spot in a public columbarium, where thousands of urns of cremated ashes are stored.
  • (2) Amid the scramble to accommodate the urban dead, one Hong Kong-based design studio has developed a prototype for an off-shore columbarium island called “Floating Eternity”, which could hold 370,000 urns at sea.

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