Mausoleum

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.
  • n. A gloomy, usually large room or building.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.
  • n. A gloomy, usually large room or building.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. [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.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a large burial chamber, usually above ground
  • Variant
    mausolea   
    Form
    mausoleal    mausolean   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Colosseum    Liam    athenaeum    coliseum    colosseum    museum   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mosque    equipage    obelisk    pagoda    sarcophagus    amphitheatre    edifice    sarcophagi    porticoes    pavilion