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
  • Those are the stakes of Supermassive Games’ Until Dawn (2015), an interactive horror survival video game in which players take control of eight friends who become stranded at a cabin on Blackwood Mountain during a memorial for their friend’s death and must survive myriad terrors…until dawn.
    Richard Newby, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
  • González’s presence and relevance in the school goes beyond simply being a namesake or having a memorial in the office with his uniform, military flag and certificates of recognition.
    Amanda Jackson, CNN Money, 27 Apr. 2025
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  • Officials are now working to preserve the historic domes of the monument — built between 532 and 537 AD — from the threat of earthquakes.
    Ashley J. DiMella Fox News, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The following day, an image of a faux Mount Rushmore featuring Eminem, Paul Wall, Russ, and the late Mac Miller (the original rappers proposed to be on the fictional monument) surfaced on social media.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 16 Apr. 2025

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