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US
/ˌmɔsəˈɫiəm/
]
[ UK /mˌɔːsəlˈiːəm/ ]
[ UK /mˌɔːsəlˈiːəm/ ]
NOUN
- a large burial chamber, usually above ground
How To Use mausoleum In A Sentence
- Oh, did I mention the mausoleum is a virtual granite resume, since Mr. Burris has etched in great detail his every job title, accomplishment, award, and entire life as a permanent monument to ... himself? Blago Has Been Impeached
- To qualify as worthy of preservation, particularly if public money is to be spent, buildings must be more than mausoleums.
- The reference library is quite unfrequented as a rule, like the mausoleum of a once-proud family that has died out. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
- It featured individuals and families who, because of divorce, bereavement, illness or some other trauma, had allowed their homes to become mausoleums of loss and longing.
- Kahler also discovered that the gatekeeper was using the mausoleum as a place for Taoist priests to hold their religious rites.
- Intended to serve as a dynastic mausoleum, it houses one of England's most dazzling collections of aristocratic tombs.
- Because it's small, no one loathes it the way they hate the big-box stores that sit like pharonic mausoleums in a blacktop desert.
- There were people grieving by their family's mausoleums and crypts.
- It has also been suggested that the Romanesque crypt of the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Dromon may originally have been the mausoleum of Dardanus and his wife, Nevia Galla.
- Mausoleum of Genghis Khan in the dense jungle, lush herb, flowers.