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.
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  • noun. a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered