Usually means: Underground burial tunnels, historically significant.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word catacombs:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. catacombs: Merriam-Webster
  2. catacombs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. catacombs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Catacombs, catacombs: Wordnik
  5. catacombs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. catacombs: Wiktionary
  7. catacombs, the catacombs: Dictionary.com
  8. Catacombs (album), Catacombs (band), Catacombs (disambiguation), Catacombs (fisting club), Catacombs (sex club), Catacombs, The Catacombs (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. catacombs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catacombs: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catacombs: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

(Note: See catacomb as well.)

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noun:  man-made underground passages primarily used for religious purposes, particularly for burial.
noun:  a 2007 American horror film directed by Tomm Coker and David Elliot, starring Shannyn Sossamon and Pink.
noun:  a funeral doom solo project of Xathagorra Mlandroth (born John Del Russi).
noun:  ancient underground passageways or subterranean cemeteries.
noun:  the fourth full-length album by Cass McCombs released on June 1, 2009 in the UK, and on July 7 in North America via Domino Records.
noun:  (U.S. title: The Woman Who Wouldn't Die) a 1965 British horror film directed by Gordon Hessler and starring Gary Merrill, Georgina Cookson and Jane Merrow.BFI.org
noun:  (also known as Curse IV: The Ultimate Sacrifice) a 1988 Italian horror film directed by David Schmoeller and starring Tim Van Patten, Ian Abercrombie, and Laura Schaefer.
noun:  a gay and lesbian S/M leather fisting club in the South of Market area of San Francisco, which operated from 1975 to 1981, and reopened at another location from 1982 to 1984.


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