mausoleum

/ˌmɔːzəˈliːəm/ (bre, ipa) · /ˌmɔːzəˈliːəm/ (ame, ipa) · /ˌmȯ-sə-ˈlē-əm ˌmȯ-zə-/ (ame, mw)

mausoleum — noun

  • mausoleumsingular
  • mausoleumsplural

1. a grand building made of stone, built above ground as a burial place for a disti

1.名詞B2
釋義

a grand building made of stone, built above ground as a burial place for a distinguished person or an honoured family, often designed as an architectural monument

例句

Xiomara stood before the marble mausoleum where the nation's independence hero lay buried.

collocation: marble mausoleum

The Chiang family mausoleum on the hillside holds five generations of ancestors.

collocation: family mausoleum

同義詞
  • tomb

    the broadest term; any burial place, from a simple grave to a grand structure

  • crypt

    an underground burial room, typically beneath a church, smaller than a mausoleum

  • vault

    a secure enclosed burial chamber, usually underground or inside a building, not a standalone structure

  • sepulchre

    a literary or biblical term for a tomb, often one carved from rock

文法句型

mausoleum + of + person/family

用法筆記

Refers only to grand, above-ground burial buildings. Not used for ordinary graves marked by a headstone, simple underground burials, or small tomb chambers. The plural can be 'mausoleums' (standard) or 'mausolea' (the older Latin form, now rare).

常見錯誤

❌They placed flowers at her mausoleum in the cemetery.
✅They placed flowers at her grave in the cemetery.
💡a mausoleum is a large above-ground building; a simple burial plot in a cemetery is a grave.
❌The old church has several mausoleums in the floor.
✅The old church has several burial vaults in the floor.
💡mausoleums are above-ground structures, not floor-level chambers.