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Definition of mausoleum in English: mausoleumnounPlural mausolea, Plural mausoleums ˌmɔːsəˈlɪəmˌmɔːzəˈlɪəm A stately or impressive building housing a tomb or group of tombs. the cathedral was built in 1517 as a royal mausoleum figurative a cultural mausoleum such as the Tate Example sentencesExamples - So now when I go to one of our fabulous temples or palaces or mosques or mausoleums, I will see them for what they are.
- The great nineteenth-century cemeteries, laid out as parks outside cities and filled with elaborate stone tombs and mausolea, have long been seen as problems after years of neglect and - worse - vandalism.
- Because it's small, no one loathes it the way they hate the big-box stores that sit like pharonic mausoleums in a blacktop desert.
- In the public sphere, great public buildings, monuments, temples and mausoleums are a sign of excess.
- There were people grieving by their family's mausoleums and crypts.
- The boxiness of museums also suggests coffins, crypts, and mausoleums; museums are places of mourning as well as ecstatic communion.
- Do not destroy the temples and mausoleums of the community and people who abide by the rules and laws of the government.
- It featured individuals and families who, because of divorce, bereavement, illness or some other trauma, had allowed their homes to become mausoleums of loss and longing.
- The most painful result of this shortage can be seen in mausoleums (small buildings for burial above ground) of cemeteries of Cairo, Egypt's capital city.
- Between this and the canal we discovered warehouses, mausolea and other buildings that fronted on to the road.
- We forget that many great works of art were not created for the mausoleums we call museums.
- The city rose to this challenge, not with banks of sterile oven-slot tombs but with dazzlingly elaborate mausoleums.
- Was she under house arrest in her palace, or had she locked herself in her mausoleum?
- Intended to serve as a dynastic mausoleum, it houses one of England's most dazzling collections of aristocratic tombs.
- The more illustrious and affluent dead were interred beneath mausolea in the form of temples or domestic houses, commemorative arches, and columns.
- Massive in scale, three stories and fifty meters high, it appears as much a palace as a mausoleum.
- Broadway these days is a no man's land for new musicals, and a museum, a mausoleum, for old ones.
- Idealised, geometric plans and an architectural vocabulary drawn from quite different building types - mausolea and monuments - were to preoccupy him.
- Cemeteries, tombs, and mausoleums are described from the point of view of art history and archaeology.
- To qualify as worthy of preservation, particularly if public money is to be spent, buildings must be more than mausoleums.
Synonyms tomb, sepulchre, crypt, vault, charnel house, burial chamber, catacomb, undercroft
Origin Late 15th century: via Latin from Greek Mausōleion, from Mausōlos, the name of a king of Caria (4th century bc), to whose tomb in Halicarnassus the name was originally applied. Rhymes athenaeum, atheneum, coliseum, Liam, lyceum, museum, peritoneum, propylaeum, Te Deum Definition of mausoleum in US English: mausoleumnoun A building, especially a large and stately one, housing a tomb or tombs. the cathedral was built in 1517 as a royal mausoleum figurative a cultural mausoleum such as the Tate Example sentencesExamples - Idealised, geometric plans and an architectural vocabulary drawn from quite different building types - mausolea and monuments - were to preoccupy him.
- The boxiness of museums also suggests coffins, crypts, and mausoleums; museums are places of mourning as well as ecstatic communion.
- Between this and the canal we discovered warehouses, mausolea and other buildings that fronted on to the road.
- Intended to serve as a dynastic mausoleum, it houses one of England's most dazzling collections of aristocratic tombs.
- Do not destroy the temples and mausoleums of the community and people who abide by the rules and laws of the government.
- Cemeteries, tombs, and mausoleums are described from the point of view of art history and archaeology.
- To qualify as worthy of preservation, particularly if public money is to be spent, buildings must be more than mausoleums.
- It featured individuals and families who, because of divorce, bereavement, illness or some other trauma, had allowed their homes to become mausoleums of loss and longing.
- The most painful result of this shortage can be seen in mausoleums (small buildings for burial above ground) of cemeteries of Cairo, Egypt's capital city.
- In the public sphere, great public buildings, monuments, temples and mausoleums are a sign of excess.
- The more illustrious and affluent dead were interred beneath mausolea in the form of temples or domestic houses, commemorative arches, and columns.
- Massive in scale, three stories and fifty meters high, it appears as much a palace as a mausoleum.
- Broadway these days is a no man's land for new musicals, and a museum, a mausoleum, for old ones.
- Because it's small, no one loathes it the way they hate the big-box stores that sit like pharonic mausoleums in a blacktop desert.
- We forget that many great works of art were not created for the mausoleums we call museums.
- The city rose to this challenge, not with banks of sterile oven-slot tombs but with dazzlingly elaborate mausoleums.
- There were people grieving by their family's mausoleums and crypts.
- Was she under house arrest in her palace, or had she locked herself in her mausoleum?
- So now when I go to one of our fabulous temples or palaces or mosques or mausoleums, I will see them for what they are.
- The great nineteenth-century cemeteries, laid out as parks outside cities and filled with elaborate stone tombs and mausolea, have long been seen as problems after years of neglect and - worse - vandalism.
Synonyms tomb, sepulchre, crypt, vault, charnel house, burial chamber, catacomb, undercroft
Origin Late 15th century: via Latin from Greek Mausōleion, from Mausōlos, the name of a king of Caria (4th century BC), to whose tomb in Halicarnassus the name was originally applied. |