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