as in memorial
a special structure or statue that is built to remind people of a dead person who is buried somewhere else
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Recent Examples of cenotaph
Middlesbrough also saw around 300 people gathering at the town’s cenotaph.
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Armani Syed/london, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
Hundreds of others squared up to police with shields at the town’s cenotaph, throwing bricks, cans, and pots at officers.
—Pan Pylas, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2024
The building features a number of elaborate interior details, including crypts and tombs, cenotaphs, iwans, chhatris, and minarets, as well as sarcophagus elements.
—Kathleen Felton, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2024
This epigram is quoted by Herodotus as the second of three displayed at the site of Thermopylae on monuments or cenotaphs.
—A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
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Armani Syed/london, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
Hundreds of others squared up to police with shields at the town’s cenotaph, throwing bricks, cans, and pots at officers.
—Pan Pylas, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2024
The building features a number of elaborate interior details, including crypts and tombs, cenotaphs, iwans, chhatris, and minarets, as well as sarcophagus elements.
—Kathleen Felton, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2024
This epigram is quoted by Herodotus as the second of three displayed at the site of Thermopylae on monuments or cenotaphs.
—A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cenotaph
Noun
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No services or memorials are scheduled at this time.—
Emlyn Travis,
EW.com,
21 July 2025
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Michael's children, Paris and Bigi (formerly known as Blanket), were in attendance at their uncle's memorial, according to photos obtained by PEOPLE at the time.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
20 July 2025
Noun
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Later in the century, sleek neoclassical monuments are the rule.—
Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
19 July 2025
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Centre Court, at Wimbledon, is a monument to tradition, to repetition.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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“Cenotaph.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cenotaph. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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