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mausoleum

[ maw-suh-lee-uhm, -zuh- ]

noun

plural mausoleums, mausolea
  1. a stately and magnificent tomb.
  2. a burial place for the bodies or remains of many individuals, often of a single family, usually in the form of a small building.
  3. a large, gloomy, depressing building, room, or the like.
  4. (initial capital letter) the tomb erected at Halicarnassus in Asia Minor in 350? b.c.


mausoleum

/ ËŒ³¾É”˲õəˈ±ôɪə³¾ /

noun

  1. a large stately tomb
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

mausoleum

  1. A tomb, or a building containing tombs. Mausoleums are often richly decorated. The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum.
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Derived Forms

  • ËŒ³¾²¹³Ü²õ´Çˈ±ô±ð²¹²Ô, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¾²¹³Üî€È´´Ç·±ô±ða²Ô adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mausoleum1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin < Greek ²Ñ²¹³Ü²õ´Ç±ô±ðî´Ç²Ô the tomb of Mausolus, king of Caria
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mausoleum1

C16: via Latin from Greek ³¾²¹³Ü²õűô±ð¾±´Ç²Ô, the tomb of Mausolus, king of Caria; built at Halicarnassus in the 4th century bc
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Sources with knowledge of the recent incident, who requested anonymity over concerns of potential retaliation, said men ransacked and torched the Zambada mausoleum located near Culiacán on Jan. 4.

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Videos verified by the BBC showed armed men chanting as they walked around the burning mausoleum in Qardaha, in the north-west of the coastal Latakia region.

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Ms Lumumba said the Lumumba Foundation wanted to take over management of the mausoleum because of security worries and had been lobbying the government to do so.

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The Dominican Republic has long claimed that it is host to his body and a mausoleum is dedicated to him in the city of Santo Domingo.

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Virginia McCullough, 36, admitted fatally poisoning her father - and placing him in a "homemade mausoleum" - and stabbing her mother to death in June 2019.

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