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Pronunciation / Transliteration: mausolée
"Le corps du président a été placé dans un mausolée."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
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A stately or impressive building housing a tomb or tombs.
"The royal family was laid to rest in a magnificent marble mausoleum."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
From Latinoleum, from Ancient Greek Mausoleion, referring to the grand tomb of Mausolus, ruler of Caria, built at Halicarnassus in the 4th century BCE.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Mausoleum" is said worldwide
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mausolée
Transliteration: mausolée
"Le corps du président a été placé dans un mausolée."
Mausoleum
Transliteration: Mausoleum
"Das historische Mausoleum befindet sich im Stadtpark."
mausoleo
Transliteration: mausoleo
"Visitarono l'antico mausoleo romano."
mausoleo
Transliteration: mausoleo
"El dictador fue enterrado en un gran mausoleo."
mausoléu
Transliteration: mausoléu
"O herói nacional repousa naquele mausoléu."
मकबरा
Transliteration: makbara
"ताजमहल एक बहुत ही सुंदर मकबरा है।"
陵墓
Transliteration: língmù
"游客们排队参观皇帝的陵墓。"
영묘
Transliteration: yeongmyo
"그 왕은 거대한 영묘에 안장되었습니다."
霊廟
Transliteration: reibyō
"その古い霊廟には多くの観光客が訪れます。"
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