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Meanings of cenotaph in English
A monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered.
Usage of cenotaph in English
1
Sealed within a cenotaph underneath are the remains of the great Akbar.
2
The vision fades, and the old walls rise like a broken cenotaph.
3
Police said the cenotaph appeared to have been damaged yesterday morning.
4
After he had finished he approached the question of the cenotaph.
5
Humayun's cenotaph, in plain white marble, is in the very centre.
6
The cenotaph is built entirely of native stone of different varieties.
7
Wreaths will be placed at the cenotaph in St Patrick's by various ambassadors.
8
Outside there stood the cenotaph with Daddy's plaque engraved upon it.
9
The present chapter is a cenotaph to the French Encyclopædists.
10
The place was a cenotaph of past romance and pleasure.
11
We had a cenotaph erected in Sligo because we had a strong Protestant community
12
The emperor went up on a great cenotaph to watch the galleys come in.
13
Some of Goldsmith's friends and admirers honoured him with a cenotaph in Westminster Abbey.
14
He also laid a wreath at the cenotaph at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
15
It is a cenotaph standing in the grounds of the parish church in Coole.
16
The huge sarcophagus in the wall is a cenotaph.
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