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 of mausoleum
The security company sent board members pictures with the doors still on the mausoleums.
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Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
One of the enclosures contains a square mausoleum measuring almost 100 square feet.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
After making sure everyone was taken care of, Holland also said a few words to the crowd before Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was shown against the back of the cemetery’s mausoleum from a projection screen.
—Angel Saunders, People.com, 10 June 2025
The mausoleum has been an UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987.
—Francesca Aton For Artnews, Robb Report, 3 June 2025
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Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
One of the enclosures contains a square mausoleum measuring almost 100 square feet.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
After making sure everyone was taken care of, Holland also said a few words to the crowd before Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was shown against the back of the cemetery’s mausoleum from a projection screen.
—Angel Saunders, People.com, 10 June 2025
The mausoleum has been an UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987.
—Francesca Aton For Artnews, Robb Report, 3 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for mausoleum
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mausoleum
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
Noun
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For centuries, this fungus was feared as a silent killer lurking in ancient tombs, responsible for mysterious deaths and the legend of the pharaoh’s curse.—
Justin Stebbing,
JSTOR Daily,
24 July 2025
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Firemen in their command center calm the fears of the locals who call in, law enforcement tracks down tomb robbers, while in the port of Torre Annunziata, Syrian tankers unload Ukrainian grain.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
22 July 2025
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Their descendants will place U.S. Lighthouse Service badge grave markers on their tombstones, the first time their graves will receive this special medal.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
14 July 2025
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New York city records reportedly show that Cortez died on May 31, 2022 at his home in the Bronx and that he is buried in a potter’s field off the coast of the borough, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
11 July 2025
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“Mausoleum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mausoleum. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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