Cenotaph

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  • noun. A monument erected in honor of a dead person whose remains lie elsewhere.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To honor or commemorate with a cenotaph.
  • noun. An empty tomb erected in honor of some deceased person; a sepulchral monument erected to one who is buried elsewhere.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A monument erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere; especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered
    • Word Usage
    "Over the cenotaph is his bust, and a representation of his first telescope."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    memorial  monument  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    aumbry  bedew  betrothment  chantry  consol  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    arch  barrow  beehive tomb  bone house  boundary stone  
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