Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cenotaph"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cenotaph \Cen"o*taph\ (s[-e]n"[-o]*t[.a]f), n. [Gr. kenota`fion;
keno`s empty + ta`fos burial, tomb: cf. F. c['e]notaphe.]
An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who
is buried elsewhere. --Dryden.

A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. --Macaulay.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

cenotaph
n : a monument built to honor soldiers who died in a war


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