Thesaurus results for MAUSOLEUM

mausoleum

noun

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 No wonder prominent families with names such as Boettcher, Bonfils and Phipps chose to spend eternity there, some in private rooms in the mausoleum. —

Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026 Bulldozers and dynamite demolished the modernist mausoleum of Reza Shah, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty. —

Azadeh Moaveni, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026 Recently built, the mausoleum at the Tafi Viejo cemetery in Tucuman has most of its niches still empty, awaiting new identifications. —

ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026 Bartonville police said Fry previously stole an urn of ashes from Oklahoma City and a coffin from a mausoleum in Denton, Texas. —

Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 21 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mausoleum

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Noun

The James Marshall monument was built at the urging of Native Sons of the Golden West, a fraternal organization devoted to preserving California’s settler past; members had to be white men born in the state.

— Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Rather than being surrounded by six lanes of asphalt and rushing traffic, people would easy have access to rest comfortably around the monument.

— Lucius Riccio, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026