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Mausoleum logo #10101) Burial chamber 2) Grave spot for a Carian king 3) Large stately tomb 4) Large tomb 5) Sepulcher 6) Sepulchre 7) Sepulture 8) Stately tomb 9) Structure for a tomb 10) The Taj Mahal is one
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Mausoleum logo #10101) Crypt 2) Tomb
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Mausoleum logo #21000 A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum. A Christian mausoleum sometimes includes ...
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Mausoleum logo #22058A building erected to house the dead. They could often be quite substantial structures.
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Mausoleum logo #21002• (n.) A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
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mausoleum logo #21003large and impressive sepulchral monument. The word is derived from Mausolus, ruler of Caria, in whose memory his widow Artemisia raised a splendid ... [4 related articles]
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Mausoleum logo #20672A funerary building and/or a large, grand tomb usually holding several members of a family
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mausoleum logo #20688Large, free-standing, sumptuous tomb. The term derives from the magnificent sepulchral monument built for King Mausolus of Caria (died 353 BC) by his wife Artemisia at Halicarnassus in Asia Minor...
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Mausoleum logo #20766 A chamber designed to act as a burial place. These could be elaborate buildings erected by, and for the sole use of, a family. They might include hatchments. An extreme example is that Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland.
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Mausoleum logo #20972Mau`so·le'um noun ; plural English Mausoleums , Latin -lea . [ Latin mausoleum , Greek ..., from ... Mausolus, king of Caria, to whom Artemisia, his widow, erected a stately monument.] A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
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mausoleum logo #20030Structure for a tomb.
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Mausoleum logo #21217A mausoleum is a sepulchral monument, so named from Mausolus, a king of Caria, to whom his wife Artemisia erected a monument which became so famous as to be esteemed the seventh wonder of the world, and to give a generic name to all superb sepulchres. From Pliny we learn that its height was 140 feet. In modern times the term is applied generally to...
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mausoleum logo #20400[n] - a large burial chamber, usually above ground
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mausoleum logo #20974 noun a large burial chamber, usually above ground
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mausoleum logo #23665 a large burial chamber, usually above ground
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