as in monument
a stone building with places for the dead bodies of several people or the body of an important person
The cemetery has many mausoleums for some of the cites most notable families.
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Recent Examples of mausoleum
The ceremony will be held in front of the community mausoleum.
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Heather McRea, Oc Register, 22 May 2025
When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan Cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
Image Most of the mausoleums still belong in private hands; if family leases are not renewed, remains are discreetly removed to the ossuary.
—Sadie Stein, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Heather McRea, Oc Register, 22 May 2025
When Willie Lincoln, the third son of President Lincoln, died at age 11 of typhoid fever, he was interred in a mausoleum in Oak Hill Cemetery.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Following the war, American Graves Registration Service personnel exhumed those buried at the Cabanatuan Cemetery and relocated the remains to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
Image Most of the mausoleums still belong in private hands; if family leases are not renewed, remains are discreetly removed to the ossuary.
—Sadie Stein, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mausoleum
Noun
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His elegant, brick-walled office, larger than the Detroit home where his working-class German immigrant parents raised him, stands as a monument to what that discipline helped build.—
Josh Rottenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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The Secretary shall manage the monument through the National Park Service, pursuant to applicable legal authorities, consistent with the purposes and provisions of this proclamation.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
24 June 2025
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A lot of the postures in Kemetic yoga are based on postures from temples or tombs.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2025
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Several tombs of high-ranking Ancient Egyptian officials were recently uncovered by local archaeologists, shedding new light on a bygone civilization.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
5 June 2025
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Look at the man in the brown mackintosh standing at Paddy Dignam’s grave in Glasnevin Cemetery.—
Benjamin Hale
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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Brandt, whose research into Fifield stemmed from just a few sentences about her in a notebook on the Fifield family history from Brandt’s late father, laid two wreaths, one on Dr. Fifield’s grave and one for the entire family.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2025
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“Mausoleum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mausoleum. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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