MAUSOLEUM (mausolea)

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Irregular inflected form: mausolea   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does mausoleum mean? 

• MAUSOLEUM (noun)
  The noun MAUSOLEUM has 1 sense:

1. a large burial chamber, usually above ground

  Familiarity information: MAUSOLEUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAUSOLEUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large burial chamber, usually above ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("mausoleum" is a kind of...):

burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)

Instance hyponyms:

Mausoleum at Halicarnasus (a white marble mausoleum 140 feet high built in 352 BC at Halicarnassus as a memorial to a king; destroyed in 1402)

Taj Mahal (beautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife)

 Context examples 

“I can think more clearly than ever in my life before. Nothing to disturb me. Concentration is perfect. I am all here and more than here.” It was like a message from the night of the grave; for this man’s body had become his mausoleum.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)