mausoleum
noun
a stately and magnificent tomb.
mausolea
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pluralof mausoleum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“What does it mean to have some lone surviving mausolea in the middle of a massive jumble of roads and traffic?”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
"It looks like a large number of villa buildings, along with a probable bath house and perhaps even mausolea and a chapel," said Dr Gater.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2022
The National Museum of African American History and Culture now stands as a glittering golden crown on the Mall, in Washington DC, a brilliant foil to the neighbouring rows of white stone mausolea.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2017
This is particularly true of the tomb mosques, situated in the mausolea on the east side of the city, and known as the Tombs of the Khalifs.
From Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
These, by the discovery of the names of their founders, are proved to have been a succession of royal mausolea, forming the most sublime Necropolis in the world.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
