cenotaphs

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plural of cenotaph
cenotaph
A monument erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere; especially members of the armed forces who died in battle
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{n} an empty tomb in honor of the dead
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A monument or building which is an empty tomb, i e, the person commemorated is buried elsewhere
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a monument built to honor soldiers who died in a war
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A cenotaph is a structure that is built in honour of soldiers who died in a war. a monument built to remind people of soldiers, sailors etc who were killed in a war and are buried somewhere else (cénotaphe, from , from kenotaphion, from kenos + taphos ). (Greek: "empty tomb") Monument, sometimes in the form of a tomb, to a person buried elsewhere. Ancient Greek writings tell of many cenotaphs, none of which survives. Existing cenotaphs of this type are found in churches (e.g., in Santa Croce, Florence, where there are memorials to Dante, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Galileo). The term is now applied to national war memorials
cenotaph
Literally "an empty tomb" A memorial in honor of a deceased person who is interred elsewhere
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{i} monument erected in memory of a person whose body is buried in another place
cenotaph
An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere
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A memorial to a person whose remains are eleswhere or are lost -- literally, "empty tomb "
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A funerary monument commemorating an individual or group buried elsewhere
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[1] A mausoleum without a burial (literally, an "empty tomb ") Mandor Gardens (Jodhpur), Jaswant Singh memorial (Jodhpur), Bundelkind memorials (Orchha)
cenotaph
An empty tomb or monument erected in memory or a person buried elsewhere
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A tomb built for ceremonial purposes but not used for the actual burial