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col·um·bar·i·um    Audio Help   [kol-uhm-bair-ee-uhm] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -bar·i·a    Audio Help   [-bair-ee-uh] Pronunciation Key.
1.a sepulchral vault or other structure with recesses in the walls to receive the ashes of the dead.
2.any one of these recesses.
3.columbary.
[Origin: 1840–50; < L: lit., a nesting box for pigeons, equiv. to columb(a) pigeon, dove + -ārium -ary]
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