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cenotaph

[sen-uh-taf, -tahf] / ˈsɛn əˌtæf, -ˌtɑf /


NOUN
tombstone
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Inaugurated in 1932, the marble cenotaph honours the memory of Greek soldiers fallen in combat.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

Ms Rogers said the knitted cenotaph and soldier are open to anyone to view at the reception building of the retirement village.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2023

The meeting took place late that month in Gwangju, by a gray stone cenotaph near the site of the minibus shooting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

“A vast cenotaph of secession” was how the journalist and historian Tony Horwitz described Richmond in his 1998 book, “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2022

A year passed without news; and it was then decided to erect a cenotaph to his lordship in Westminster Abbey.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various


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