MAUSOLEUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: mausolea   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large burial chamber, usually above ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mausoleum" is a kind of...):

burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)

Instance hyponyms:

Mausoleum at Halicarnasus (a white marble mausoleum 140 feet high built in 352 BC at Halicarnassus as a memorial to a king; destroyed in 1402)

Taj Mahal (beautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife)

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