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Magnificent tomb or monument
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mausoleum
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After touring the mausoleum , the peasant returns and again asks where he can find Mao alive. ▪ And there was Papa in this great mausoleum . ▪ It was his building, Lewis' s. It was like his tomb or mausoleum , almost airless. ...
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so A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph . A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mausoleum \Mau`so*le"um\, n.; pl. E. Mausoleums , L. -lea . [L. mausoleum, Gr. ?, fr. ? Mausolus, king of Caria, to whom Artemisia, his widow, erected a stately monument, one of the wonders of the ancient world.] A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral ...
Usage examples of mausoleum.
Very few people splashed through the mud to the family mausoleum, protected by a colonial ceiba tree whose branches spread over the cemetery wall.
Marshal de Schulenburg which had been deposited there until the mausoleum erected for him was completed.
When the great doors of the embassy thundered shut behind them, Jai felt as if he were trapped in a mausoleum.
Fan Importer, a Glass Beveller, a Hotel Broker, an Insect Exterminator, a Junk Dealer, a Kalsomine Manufacturer, a Laundryman, a Mausoleum Architect, a Nurse, an Oculist, a Paper-Hanger, a Quilt Designer, a Roofer, a Ship Plumber, a Tinsmith, an Undertaker, a Veterinarian, a Wig Maker, an X-ray apparatus manufacturer, a Yeast producer, or a Zinc Spelter.
She was put in mind of the marble statues of renascent Italy, the slumbering heroes carved on mausoleums.
He explained that occasionally, owing to poor embalming, corpses in unventilated mausoleums fill up with gas and explode in the crypts, thus blowing out the cemented slabs.
The Duc de Ventre says he will carry that ghastly schlup to his mausoleum.
With some slight alterations, a theatre, an amphitheatre, a mausoleum, was transformed into a strong and spacious citadel.
So Bartram countered by erecting his mausoleum on his own property, instead of in the cemetery.
His blackened form made a blot as it passed the white marble front of the mausoleum where Josiah Bartram lay buried.
It was the same Guzman Bento who, becoming later Perpetual President, famed for his ruthless and cruel tyranny, readied his apotheosis in the popular legend of a sanguinary land-haunting spectre whose body had been carried off by the devil in person from the brick mausoleum in the nave of the Church of Assumption in Sta.
At first the place reminded him of Via Salaria in Rome, a mausoleum for Lucilius Peto, a wealthy military tribune and prefect of the smiths and the cavalry.
The door at the top of the mausoleum steps we had reclosed but not relocked.
Clear heads, sir, for pictures, statues, busts, relievos, basso relievos, tablets, monuments, mausoleums.
Near the mausoleum he noticed two new graves, old Tom, the garden rouseabout, and the wife of one of the stockmen, who had been on the payroll since 1946.