(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.
Pigeonhole
Definition:
(n.) A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.
(v. t.) To place in the pigeonhole of a case or cabinet; hence, to put away; to lay aside indefinitely; as, to pigeonhole a letter or a report.
Example Sentences:
(1) Don't be afraid of being pigeonholed - it's great to have a niche.
(2) If we cease to aim for the universal pigeonholing of viruses into genera and species, binomial latinized names lose their chief justification.
(3) Minty, 46, sees humour as a powerful tool to relax people about an awkward subject, and is determined that the podcast should not be pigeonholed as "earnest" or "lecturey".
(4) It had been dubbed "the female answer to The Hangover" – a niche women's film – but to pigeonhole it in such a way is to do it a huge disservice.
(5) I want to have the freedom to work on many issues and not be pigeonholed into one particular area,” Carson, who is Trump’s most prominent African American supporter, told the Washington Post .
(6) He's pigeonholing women into the traditional role of motherhood, nurturing and marriage.
(7) In contrast to Amis's glittering literary career, Howard has for years been unfairly pigeonholed as someone who writes nice domestic dramas for the middle classes: not intellectual enough to be a Murdoch or Woolf or sufficiently populist to get to the top of the Amazon bestseller lists.
(8) Like those artists, Miguel refuses to be pigeonholed.
(9) "I don't really believe in standardised sexual pigeonholes," says Kaboom's hero Smith, whom Araki describes as "ambisexual".
(10) Her diva demands do not extend beyond the stage-door staff voluntarily leaving a hand-picked packet of her favourite black liquorice allsorts in her pigeonhole.
(11) "We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor."
(12) In order to delegitimise the camp, lots of passersby I met wanted to pigeonhole the protesters as either unrealistic youngsters, or lazy layabouts.
(13) There is no magic policy bullet that will get the party more ethnic minority votes – non-white voters aren't a homogenous group, and don't want to be pigeonholed.
(14) "Notes were left in my pigeonhole at college, there were Facebook messages," she said.
(15) So it was that, one sad afternoon at university, a woman I am still close to sobbed into my chest inside the ladies loos along the corridor from the college pigeonholes.
(16) This specific electronic nature of DNA take the form of magnetic pigeonholes in which an electric pulse is (0), or is not (1) stored as an area of local magnetisation.
(17) Betty Birch London SW6 Pigeonholed by your name My son born, brought up and educated in England, speaks only English, his mother tongue (my wife is English).
(18) Honestly, I’m pretty conventional.” As far back as he can remember, people have tried to pigeonhole him, just as they did his father.
(19) It is so easy and tempting to knock this into a pigeonhole: the misguided self-blame and denial of the victim.
(20) He's made it obvious in the past that he doesn't enjoy interviews, and hates the way that journalists pigeonhole.