cenotaph

as in memorial
a special structure or statue that is built to remind people of a dead person who is buried somewhere else

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Recent Examples of cenotaph Middlesbrough also saw around 300 people gathering at the town’s cenotaph. Armani Syed/london, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024 Hundreds of others squared up to police with shields at the town’s cenotaph, throwing bricks, cans, and pots at officers. Pan Pylas, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2024 The building features a number of elaborate interior details, including crypts and tombs, cenotaphs, iwans, chhatris, and minarets, as well as sarcophagus elements. Kathleen Felton, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2024 This epigram is quoted by Herodotus as the second of three displayed at the site of Thermopylae on monuments or cenotaphs. A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for cenotaph
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Noun
  • If the Post Office name cannot be changed, advocates for the Archie Moore memorial would likely seek a name change of the Ramona Community Library operated by the county of San Diego, Summers said.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2025
  • Prince William placed a bouquet on the memorial and joined the survivors and the families of the victims after the ceremony at a private reception.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 7 July 2025
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  • Even so, last year, the city of Hartford picked up the tab for $150,000 in maintenance that covered cutting down dead trees that posed a safety hazard; hauling away illegally dumped items and removing of overgrowth and mowing around hundreds of headstones and monuments.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2025
  • The memorial would replace an earlier monument of King at the corner of Reading Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025

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