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 on the Web After the war, graves at the Cabanatuan cemetery were exhumed and the remains were relocated to a temporary U.S. military mausoleum near Manila, according to the American Graves Registration Service Remains from Common Grave 215 were sent to DPAA labs in 2018 for analysis. —

Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2024 All guest rooms are built on the same side of the hotel so that everyone gets a front-row view of the renowned Mughal mausoleum, which is likely their entire reason for visiting Agra. —

Claudia Fisher, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2024 The remains were relocated to a U.S. military mausoleum near Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and in 1947, the agency attempted to identify the remains. —

Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 June 2024 Since 2020, for example, the Egyptian government has progressively demolished the historic City of the Dead mausoleum, a UNESCO World Heritage site. —

Costa Beavin Pappas, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for mausoleum

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