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Definition: Mausoleum |
MausoleumNoun1. A large burial chamber, usually above ground. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mausoleum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Mausoleum \Mau`so*le"um\, noun; plural English Mausoleums, from Latin expression -lea. [Latin expression mausoleum, Greek, from Mausolus, king of Caria, to whom Artemisia, his widow, erected stately monument.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Satire | MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a mausoleum, indicates the sickness, death, or trouble of some prominent friend. To find yourself inside a mausoleum, foretells your own illness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Mausoleum One of the seven "wonders of the world;" so called from Mausolus, King of Caria, to whom Artemisia (his wife) erected at Halicarnassos a splendid sepulchral monument B.C. 353. Parts of this sepulchre are now in the British Museum. The chief mausoleums, besides the one referred to above, are: the mausoleum of Augustus; that of Hadrian, now called the castle of St. Angelo, at Rome; that erected in France to Henry II. by Catherinede Medicis; that of St. Peter the Martyr in the church of St. Eustatius, by G. Balduccio in the fourteenth century; and that erected to the memory of Louis XVI. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word came from the Mausoleum of Maussollos, the tomb of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
See also: List of famous cemeteries, which lists several mausoleums
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mausoleum."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interment | Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mausoleum |
| English words defined with "mausoleum": Escurial ♦ -lea ♦ Mausolean, Mausoleums ♦ Taj Mahal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mausoleum": CEMETERY WORKER, Cenotaphs ♦ Fordelis ♦ Kist-vaen ♦ mausoleum ♦ SUPERVISOR, CEMETERY WORKERS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mausoleum": Mausolean. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mausoleum" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (mausoleum, tomb), Swedish (mausoleum). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Mausoleum (1995) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Mausoleum, Charlottenburg.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mausoleum to Resistance and Martyrdom. Instruments of torture in the interrogation room / Fot. A. Kaczkowski.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mausoleum of massacred Slav soldiers, Plevna, Bulgaria.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mausoleum, Kunya-Urgench, Turkmenistan.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lasker Mausoleum, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, N. Tarrytown, New York. Exterior I.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Mausoleum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.61% of the time. "Mausoleum" is used about 118 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.61% | 114 | 30,294 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.39% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 118 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mausoleum | 73 |
halicarnassus mausoleum | 18 |
lenin mausoleum | 5 |
galla mausoleum placidia | 4 |
halloween mausoleum | 3 |
construction mausoleum | 3 |
club mausoleum | 3 |
mahal mausoleum mumtaz taj | 3 |
mausoleum record | 3 |
il kim mausoleum sung | 3 |
augustus mausoleum | 2 |
cemetery chapel mausoleum | 2 |
design for a mausoleum | 2 |
mausoleum problem | 2 |
aga khan mausoleum | 2 |
mausoleum movie | 2 |
interment mausoleum ottawa | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mausoleum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mauzole. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قبر فخم, ضريح (grave, sepulcher, sepulchre, shrine, tomb), بناية ضخمة مظلمة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мавзолей. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 陵" (tomb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mauzoleum. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقبره (Bier, Kil, Monument, Sepulcher, Tomb), ارامگاه بزرگ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mausolée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mausoleum (tomb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαυσωλείο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מאוזולאון, ב ין קבר מלכותי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | síremlék (cenotaph, mausolea, sepulcher, sepulchre, shrine, tomb), mauzóleum (mausolea), kolumbárium (columbarium, mausolea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | makam besar & indah. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mausoleo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 霊殿 (shrine), 霊廟 , 霊屋 (resting place of a corpse), 御霊屋 , 宗廟 (ancestral shrine, Imperial mausoleum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たまや (jeweler, resting place of a corpse), そうびょう (ancestral shrine, Imperial mausoleum, mania, mulberry seedling), れいびょう, れいで" (shrine), みたまや. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | toman mooar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ausoleummay espingarda mauser. (various references) mausoleu. (various references) мавзолей. (various references) crùisle, crùidse. (various references) mauzolej, grobnica (crypt, repository, sepulchre, sepulture, tomb, vault). (various references) mausoleo (shrine). (various references) mausoleum. (various references) สุสาน (cemetery, necropolis), อนุสาวรีย์บรรจุศพ. (various references) mozole (tomb), türbe (sepulcher, sepulchre, shrine, tomb), anıtkabir (ataturk's tumb), anıt mezar (cenotaph). (various references) mawzoleя (r). (various references) мавзолей. (various references) lăng tẩm, lăng (feretory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "mausoleum": mausoleums. (additional references) | |
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"Mausoleum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mansolu, Matusalem, mauseleum, mausleum, mausloeum, mausolem, Metusalem, Morsoleum, mousoleum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mausoleum" (pronounced mô'sulē"um) |
| 3 | -ē" u m | Athenaeum, coliseum, colosseum, museum. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-m-o-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: emulous. | |
-3 letters: amoles, lemmas, museum, oleums, omasum, summae, ulemas. | |
-4 letters: almes, aloes, alums, ammos, amole, amuse, lames, lemma, loams, louse, luaus, males, malms, mauls, meals, memos, meous, molas, moles, momes, momus, moues, mouse, mules, mumus, oleum, ousel, solum, summa, ulema, usual. | |
-5 letters: ales, alme, alms, aloe, also, alum, ammo, amus, elms, emus, lame, lams. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-m-o-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: mausoleums. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 75 73 6F 6C 65 75 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- ..- ... --- .-.. . ..- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110101 01110011 01101111 01101100 01100101 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a u s o l e u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0075 0073 006F 006C 0065 0075 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476787858178718779 |
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