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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.
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n. (plural of mausoleum English)
Usage examples of "mausoleums".
I watched the shadows between the stone mausoleums, ready for any sudden attack from behind the larger tombstones.
Headstones collapsed or lurched to one side, and the great mausoleums trembled.
Stone fragments from headstones and mausoleums flew on the air like shrapnel.
In the older sections of the cemetery, into which we drove, the mausoleums were impressive: limestone-and-granite structures complete with sloping cornices and Ionic pilasters.
Someone — possibly two or three someones, but more likely a single person — was breaking into the crypts and mausoleums of small-town cemeteries with the efficiency of a good burglar breaking into a house or store.
For the thing in the pit had eavesdropped on the deadspeak conversations of dreaming Thyre ancients in their cavern mausoleums under the drifted sands of Sunside's deserts, and he understood Nathan's power over the dead: that they would even leave their graves at his command.
The Cavern of the Ancients, one of the many mausoleums where the Thyre entombed their most revered: a great, glowing cave buried deep in a desert gorge, but a cave unlike any other.
Westminster Abbey was a tangled warren of mausoleums, perimeter chambers, and walk-in burial niches.
The colossal subterranean hollow was filled with crumbling mausoleums, like small houses on the floor of a cave.
Those who did travel generally transferred only their personas, downloading them into duplicate bodies kept stored in distant city mausoleums: hard copy.