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mausoleum

/,mɑsə'liəm/

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noun
a large burial chamber, usually above ground
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burial chamber sepulcher sepulchre sepulture

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halicarnassus an ancient Greek city on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the mausoleum at Halicarnassus
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