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mausoleum
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 monument.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"magnificent tomb," 1540s, from Latin mausoleum, from Greek Mausoleion, name of the massive marble tomb built 353 B.C.E. at Halicarnassus (Greek city in Asia Minor) for Mausolos, Persian satrap who made himself king of Caria. It was built by his wife (and sister), Artemisia. Counted among the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, it was destroyed by an earthquake in the Middle Ages. General sense of "any stately burial-place" is from c.1600.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs. 2 A gloomy, usually large room or building.
WordNet
n. a large burial chamber, usually above ground
[also: mausolea (pl)]
Wikipedia
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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, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum. A Christian mausoleum sometimes includes a chapel.
Mausoleum is a 1983 supernatural horror film directed by Michael Dugan and starring former Playboy Bunny Bobbie Bresee.
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.