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Mausoleum

Mausoleum Meaning & Definition
Mausoleum Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mausoleum?

[n] a large burial chamber, usually above ground

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mausoleum:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mausoleum: arch | barrow | beehive tomb | bone house | boundary stone | box grave | brass | burial | burial chamber | burial mound | bust | cairn | catacombs | cenotaph | charnel house | cist | cist grave | column | cromlech | cross | crypt | cup | cyclolith | deep six | dokhma | dolmen | footstone | grave | gravestone | headstone | hoarstone | house of death | inscription | last home | long home | low green tent | low house | marker | mastaba | megalith | memento | memorial | memorial arch | memorial column | memorial statue | memorial stone | menhir | monolith | monstrance | monument | mound | mummy chamber | narrow house | necrology | obelisk | obituary | ossuarium | ossuary | passage grave | pillar | pit | plaque | prize | pyramid | reliquary | remembrance | resting place | ribbon | rostral column | sepulcher | shaft | shaft grave | shrine | stela | stone | stupa | tablet | testimonial | tomb | tombstone | tope | tower of silence | trophy | tumulus | vault

See Also | burial chamber | sepulcher | sepulchre | sepulture | Taj Mahal

Mausoleum In Webster's Dictionary

\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.] A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.

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