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mausoleum noun [ ˌmɔːsəˈlɪəm ]

• a stately or impressive building housing a tomb or group of tombs.
• "the cathedral was built in 1517 as a royal mausoleum"
Similar: 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.


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