Catacomb vs. Ossuary — What's the Difference?

Often catacombs An underground cemetery consisting of chambers or tunnels with recesses for graves.

An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce.

An underground, often labyrinthine passageway.

A container or receptacle, such as an urn or a vault, for holding the bones of the dead.

(often plural) An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome.

A container, receptacle, or building, such as an urn or vault, for holding the bones of the dead.

A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; - commonly in the plural.

A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house.

An underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome)

Any receptacle for the burial of human bones