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cenotaph

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


NOUN
tombstone
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Theirs are among 51 names on that pale grey granite cenotaph.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025

The cenotaph "is not a billboard for claims, however respectable they may be," he said.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

Choi kneels before the cenotaph and hangs his head.

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

No pen can lustre their unfading claim; No cenotaph do honor to their dust— These are crown jewels on the brow of Fame; Their conquest is supreme, their laurels ever just.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt




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