cenotaph in English

noun
1
a tomblike monument to someone buried elsewhere, especially one commemorating people who died in a war.
In the grounds, swathed in palm fronds, stands a marble cenotaph commemorating the dead of the Highland Light Infantry stationed in Karachi from 1898 to 1899.

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1. 12 The cenotaph stands as a remembrance of those killed during the war.

2. A cenotaph in his honor is erected in the cemetery of the Christ Episcopal Church near The Green in Dover.

3. Cenotaph This stranger was about forty years old, wore light-blue spectacles, and had a near-sighted, study-worn look about him that speedily suggested the essayist of Cenotaphs.

4. A cenotaph is a monument, sometimes in the form of a tomb, to a person or group of persons buried elsewhere. Ancient Greek writings tell of many Cenotaphs, although none of them survives

5. In India, Cenotaphs are a basic element of Hindu architecture borrowed from Islamic architecture, as seen in most of the mausoleums of Mughal Emperors which have two burial chambers, the upper one with a cenotaph, as in Humayun's Tomb, Delhi or the Taj Mahal, Agra, while the real tomb often lies exactly below it, or further removed.The term chhatri, used for these canopylike structures, comes