mausoleum

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In front of the mausoleum is a hall measuring 220 ft.

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  1. noun A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.
  2. noun A gloomy, usually large room or building.

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  • Every important and unimportant political fool who dies nowadays is buried under obituary notices and a mausoleum in two volumes—a mausoleum which is, as a rule, about as high a work of art as the angels on tombstones in an early Victorian cemetery. —  THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND
  • And they're headed towards a mausoleum, which is exercising a very old and amazing political gesture that we have in Iranian political culture, which means-translates as seeking refuge in a sanctuary, and presumably will be protected from violence there. —  MyAntiwar.org
  • Before I left I got up to see Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum, which is heavily guarded, and you can only walk past him in single file, no stopping and no pictures. —  English-writing Israeli-bloggers
  • In front of the mausoleum is a hall measuring 220 ft. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
  • Only one year after this ceremony she again took the road to exile, where she ended her troublous life, a pattern of piety and resignation Sa mort fut le soir d’un beau jour In the centre of the mausoleum is the vault containing the bones, and over it a sarcophagus on a pedestal, upon which are inscribed the names of the victims. —  Brittany ; Its Byways
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Latin Mausōlēum, from Greek Mausōleion, from Mausōlos, Mausolus (died c. 353 B.C.), Persian satrap of Caria whose tomb was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

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  1. from Latin mausolēum, from Greek μαυσωλεῑον, the tomb of Mausolus (see def.), hence any splendid tomb, from Μαύσωλος, Mausolus.
 

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