Synonyms for mausoleum
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : maw-suh-lee-uh m, -zuh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌmɔ səˈli əm, -zə- |
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Définition of mausoleum
Origin :- "magnificent tomb," 1540s, from Latin mausoleum, from Greek Mausoleion, name of the massive marble tomb built 353 B.C.E. at Halicarnassus (Greek city in Asia Minor) for Mausolos, Persian satrap who made himself king of Caria. It was built by his wife (and sister), Artemisia. Counted among the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, it was destroyed by an earthquake in the Middle Ages. General sense of "any stately burial-place" is from c.1600.
- noun tomb
- The revisiting of old scenes is like walking into a mausoleum.
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- But you know that my memory is merely a mausoleum of proper names.
- Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
- And they went likewise to see the figure of our Lawgiver in the Pope's mausoleum.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- One could not mistake a group from the temple at Phigaleia for a group from the Mausoleum.
- Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
- His remains were afterwards removed to the mausoleum at Frogmore.
- Extract from : « The Stamps of Canada » by Bertram Poole
- Augustus was not the first member of the family to occupy the mausoleum.
- Extract from : « Pagan and Christian Rome » by Rodolfo Lanciani
- The vicissitudes of the mausoleum did not end with this change of religion and ownership.
- Extract from : « Pagan and Christian Rome » by Rodolfo Lanciani
- This mausoleum is considered to be the most remarkable sight in Japan.
- Extract from : « From Pole to Pole » by Sven Anders Hedin
- There are two peaks; the mausoleum is situated on one, the monument on the other.
- Extract from : « Travels in the Far East » by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
- The mausoleum of William the Silent is in the middle of the church.
- Extract from : « Holland, v. 1 (of 2) » by Edmondo de Amicis
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