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mausoleum
[ maw-suh-lee-uhm, -zuh- ]
noun
- a stately and magnificent tomb.
- a burial place for the bodies or remains of many individuals, often of a single family, usually in the form of a small building.
- a large, gloomy, depressing building, room, or the like.
- (initial capital letter) the tomb erected at Halicarnassus in Asia Minor in 350? b.c.
mausoleum
/ ˌɔːəˈɪə /
noun
- a large stately tomb
mausoleum
- A tomb, or a building containing tombs. Mausoleums are often richly decorated. The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum.
Derived Forms
- ˌܲˈ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ȴ·a adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of mausoleum1
Word History and Origins
Origin of mausoleum1
Example Sentences
When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.
“He goes, ‘I just want to make sure you’re going to be in our group family mausoleum,’” she said on the podcast.
Sources with knowledge of the recent incident, who requested anonymity over concerns of potential retaliation, said men ransacked and torched the Zambada mausoleum located near Culiacán on Jan. 4.
Videos verified by the BBC showed armed men chanting as they walked around the burning mausoleum in Qardaha, in the north-west of the coastal Latakia region.
Ms Lumumba said the Lumumba Foundation wanted to take over management of the mausoleum because of security worries and had been lobbying the government to do so.
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