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 Translation for 'ossuary' from English to Slovak
NOUN   ossuary | ossuaries
urna {f}ossuary
schránka {f} na kostiossuary
skrinka {f} na telesné pozostatkyossuary
arch.hist.
kostnica {f}
ossuary
arch.archeol.hist.
osárium {n}
ossuary
arch.archeol.hist.
osuárium {n}
ossuary
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Translation for 'ossuary' from English to Slovak

ossuary
urna {f}

schránka {f} na kosti

skrinka {f} na telesné pozostatky

kostnica {f}arch.hist.

osárium {n}arch.archeol.hist.

osuárium {n}arch.archeol.hist.
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Usage Examples English
  • Sedlec is the site of the Gothic Church of the Assumption of Our Lady and Saint John the Baptist and the famous Sedlec Ossuary.
  • Outside the holy cave facing the creek, is the ossuary where the remains of some of the former priests assigned to the parish are inurned. This ossuary is exclusive for OFM friars.
  • According to Prof Kloner, the James Ossuary cannot be the missing 10th ossuary because the 10th ossuary had no inscription and had different dimensions.
  • The largest is the French National Cemetery and Douaumont Ossuary near Fort Douaumont.
  • To the left of the church porch there is a columned area which served as the original ossuary.

  • The ossuary is built in the Renaissance style of architecture and dates to 1643.
  • The huge Douaumont ossuary was built to remember Verdun through a private French charity, organised by the Bishop of Verdun.
  • Brno Ossuary is an underground ossuary in Brno, Czech Republic.
  • The Caiaphas ossuary is a highly decorated ossuary twice inscribed "Joseph, son of Caiaphas" which held the bones of a 60-year-old male.
  • In 1844, the cemetery was cleared and the skeletal remains were transferred to the "l'Ossuaire de l'Ouest" (West Ossuary).

  • Behind the "Aux Morts" (To the Dead) monument sculpted by Paul-Albert Bartholomé lies an ossuary of the bones of Parisians from cemeteries all over the city, a smaller kind of modern-day catacombs.
  • In 2001, archeological exploration revealed the size of Brno Ossuary, an ossuary underneath the square by the church, [...] , which is estimated to contain the remains of 50,000 people.
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