Cenotaph

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A monument erected in honor of a dead person whose remains lie elsewhere.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A monument erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere; especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An empty tomb erected in honor of some deceased person; a sepulchral monument erected to one who is buried elsewhere.
  • To honor or commemorate with a cenotaph.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    memorial    monument   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mihrab    potpie    pleasure-dome    square-topped    pavane   
     
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