The meaning of Mausoleum

noun

An underground cemetery consisting of a subterranean gallery with recesses for tombs, as constructed by the ancient romans.

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While their roman counterparts worshipped in catacombs and underground vaults, the egyptian christi…

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A series of underground passages and rooms where bodies were buried in the past

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They went down into catacombs beneath the church.

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An underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place.

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Thirteen additional art works were packed into the central aisle, adjacent chapels and underground …

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A room or rooms under the floor of a church where people are sometimes buried

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A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

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And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre …

verb

Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre.

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Tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries

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A stone structure where someone is buried

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A large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead.

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It is england's oldest borough; athelstan, the first king of england was initially buried here and …

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A structure or underground room where someone, esp. an important person, is buried

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The crypt of a church.

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The spatial result resembles a cathedral crypt or an undercroft, yet it is all above ground.

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A roof in the form of an arch or a series of arches, typical of churches and other large, formal buildings.

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A gothic ribbed vault

verb

Leap or spring while supporting or propelling oneself with one or both hands or with the help of a pole.

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He vaulted over the gate

noun

An act of vaulting.

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The barman, with a practised vault of the bar, was again serving wine