Mausoleum
11MAUSOLEUM — quid proprie, vide in voce Artemisia. item Mausolus I. De eo sic Plin. l. 36. c. 5. Sepulchrum hoc est ab uxore Artemisia factum Mausolo Cariae Regulo Opus id ut esset inter septem miraculae, ii maxime Artifices fecêre. Patet ab Austro et… …
12mausoleum — meaning ‘a grand tomb’ (after that of the 4c bc king of Caria, Mausolus), has the plural form mausoleums …
13mausoleum — [n] tomb burial, burial chamber, burial place, catacomb, cemetery, charnel house, coffin, crypt, grave, monument, sepulcher, vault; concept 305 …
14mausoleum — ► NOUN (pl. mausolea or mausoleums) ▪ a building housing a tomb or tombs. ORIGIN Greek Maus leion, from Maus los, the name of a king of the 4th century BC to whose tomb the name was originally applied …
15Mausoleum — [mô΄sə lē′əm, mä΄sə lē′əm; mô΄zəlē′əm] n. pl. for 2 & 3 mausoleums or mausolea [mô΄səlē′ə, mô΄zəlē′ə] [mô΄səlē′ə, mô΄zəlē′ə] [L < Gr Mausōleion] 1. the tomb of Mausolus, king of Caria, at Halicarnassus: included among the seven wonders of the… …
16Mausoleum — Taj Mahal Anıtkabir Grabmal …
17Mausoleum — Taj Mahal, in Agra, India is the world s most famous and most photographed mausoleum …
18Mausoleum — Grabstätte * * * Mau|so|le|um 〈n.; s, le|en〉 1. 〈urspr.〉 monumentales Grabmal des Königs Mausolos in Halikarnass, eins der sieben Weltwunder 2. 〈danach allg.〉 monumentales Grabmal * * * Mau|so|le|um, das; s, …een [lat. Mausoleum < griech.… …
19mausoleum — mausolean, adj. /maw seuh lee euhm, zeuh /, n., pl. mausoleums, mausolea / lee euh/. 1. a stately and magnificent tomb. 2. a burial place for the bodies or remains of many individuals, often of a single family, usually in the form of a small… …
20mausoleum — [16] The original mausoleum was a vast marble tomb (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world) erected in 353 BC for Mausolus, king of Caria in Asia Minor by his widow Artemisia. Its architect was Pythius, and its site was at Halicarnassus… …
