mausoleum

9 letters in word "mausoleum": A E L M M O S U U.

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• Definitions:
• a large burial chamber, usually above ground
• A mausoleum (plural: mausolea) is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum. ...
• A building that provides crypts or vaults for caskets and niches for cremated remains placed in urns.
• A building erected to house the dead. They could often be quite substantial structures.
• Mausoleum comes from the Greek word 'mausoleion', meaning a large tomb.
• an above-ground tomb.
• A stately and magnificent tomb, such as the mausoleum of King Mausolos (ruler of Caria, c. 350 AD) at Halicarnassus in Asia Minor, and the mausoleum of Augustus (d. 14 AD) in Rome.
• Large, elaborate tomb or building to hold human remains.
• A tomb, usually of fine architectural quality. The Egyptian pyramids were built as mausoleums and many rich garden-owners have made them (eg at Castle Howard).
• A durable, fireproof structure used or intended to be used for entombment. Health & Safety Code 711.001(20).
• or turba) with charitable functions attached.
• Named for Mausolus, King of Caria, whose wife, Artemisia, built one of the Seven Wonders of the World. A chamber or structure used, or intended to be used, for entombment. A building that houses crypts for burial. ...
• A public or private building especially designed to receive entombments. A permanent above ground resting place for the dead. Named after King Masolus of Caria, whose tomb became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. ...
• A building designed to entomb bodies above ground.
• A monumental building used as a tomb. Named after the tomb of Mausolos erected at Halikarnassos around 350 BCE.
• A building in which remains are buried or entombed.

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