Mausoleum

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  • noun. A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.
  • noun. A gloomy, usually large room or building.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. [capitalized] In Gr. archæol., a very large and magnificent edifice adorned with sculpture, built by Queen Artemisia of Caria as the tomb of her husband, King Mausolus, at Halicarnassus, about 350 b. c., ranking as one of the seven wonders of the world.
  • noun. Any splendid tomb; a grand or stately sepulchral monument or edifice, now usually designed to contain a number of tombs: as, the mausoleum of a royal family.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.
  • noun. A gloomy, usually large room or building.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a large burial chamber, usually above ground
    • Word Usage
    "And having a gaudy mausoleum is not an impeachable offense."
    Form
    mausoleal  mausolean  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Colosseum  Liam  athenaeum  coliseum  colosseum  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    amphitheatre  aqueduct  basilica  chateau  colonnade  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    arch  barrow  beehive tomb  bone house  boundary stone  
    variant
    mausolea  
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