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Definition of Cenotaph
1. Noun. A monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered.
Definition of Cenotaph
1. n. An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
Definition of Cenotaph
1. Noun. A monument erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere; especially members of the armed forces who died in battle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cenotaph
1. an empty tomb [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cenotaph
Literary usage of Cenotaph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... carried to the Abbey, and placed in a splendid cenotaph." On the whole,
considering that on Cromwell's death a general impression prevailed that his ..."
2. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1810)
"... it having been originally built for the reception a^jd entertainment of devout
pilgrims. The cenotaph to the memory of Sir John ..."
3. Poets' Country by John Churton Collins, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, William John Loftie, Michael MacMillan (1907)
"THE cenotaph AT STOKE POGES On the cenotaph at Stoke Poges, the scene of Gray's
Elegy, is inscribed the lines :— Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, ..."
4. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"CHAPTER X. Boston.—Blind Asylum and Laura Bridgeman.—Respect for Freedom of
Conscience.—Cemetery of Mount Auburn.—Channing's cenotaph.— Episcopal Churches ..."
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