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
Even in capital murder cases, the United States requires both criminal prosecutors and defense counsel to meet a rigorous legal standard when petitioning to disturb a mausoleum or grave.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
The maze will pass through Van Helsing’s crumbling mausoleum, Dracula’s shadowy castle and Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
Give yourself ample time to tour the 42-acre complex; besides the mausoleum, there is a mosque, a guest house, cloisters, courtyards, and vast gardens.
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—Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 25 July 2025
The Taj Mahal might be thousands of miles away from New York, but with the opening of Musaafer, a touch of the famed mausoleum is just as far as a trip to TriBeCa.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 Aug. 2025
The maze will pass through Van Helsing’s crumbling mausoleum, Dracula’s shadowy castle and Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
Give yourself ample time to tour the 42-acre complex; besides the mausoleum, there is a mosque, a guest house, cloisters, courtyards, and vast gardens.
6.
—Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 25 July 2025
The Taj Mahal might be thousands of miles away from New York, but with the opening of Musaafer, a touch of the famed mausoleum is just as far as a trip to TriBeCa.
—Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
See All Example Sentences for mausoleum
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mausoleum
Noun
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The relief was most likely an adornment on the outside of a royal monument.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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That monument, erected in 1892, finally found a new home earlier this year in the Lost in New Haven Museum, NBC Connecticut reported.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The statues were placed on rectangular stone platforms called ahu, which serve as tombs.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
8 Oct. 2025
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Still, no one is ever confirmed as being in the tomb, and Debbie even ponders whether or not Danny is really dead.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Short credits include Red Rubber Boots, about a woman trying to find the remains of her two children who were killed and buried in a mass grave.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
13 Oct. 2025
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For the seven mostly young men sitting around this table, bottom was a grave of their own digging — a hole so deep that their cries for help went unheard.—
Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Mausoleum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mausoleum. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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