cenotaph








noun

  1. a sepulchral monument erected in memory of a deceased person whose body is buried elsewhere.

noun

  1. a monument honouring a dead person or persons buried elsewhere

noun

  1. the Cenotaph the monument in Whitehall, London, honouring the dead of both World Wars: designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens: erected in 1920
n.

c.1600, from French cĂ©notaphe (16c.), from Latin cenotaphium, from Greek kenotaphion, from kenos “empty” (see keno-) + taphos “tomb, burial, funeral,” from PIE root *dhembh- “to bury.”

56 queries 0.426