(n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Xavier Niel, one of France’s wealthiest people and a known “cataphile” (those who illegally explore Paris’s catacombs and underground quarries), is said to have built a flight of steps that goes directly from his house down to Paris’s undergrounds.
(2) If postnatal wards are filled with hope for the future, psych wards are catacombs, filled with the death of hope.
(3) You are here in the Kingdom of Death,” warns the macabre inscription at the entrance to Les Catacombes de Paris – the underground boneyard filled with the remains of 6 million Parisians, which attracts half a million living and breathing visitors each year.
(4) Part of the inspiration for the piece had come, he explained, when he was trying to visit the catacombs of the Capuchin monks in Palermo.
(5) He drew a parallel with the church of the persecuted early Christians who preserved their orthodoxy in the catacombs.
(6) It is part of a religious complex containing another ancient church (S Agnese, early 7th century and also with beautiful mosaics) and catacombs.
(7) Further, the quiet, understated scenes between John Clare and Vanessa in the catacombs of the cholera ward allow themes to blossom that few other shows would dare cultivate: God, salvation, theodicy, our responsibility to one another, those truly universal hopes of being accepted and being loved.
(8) Next to the catacombs, a former toll house known as the Barrière d’Enfer (“Gate of Hell”) hosts the Inspection Générale des Carrières (IGC), an office created in 1777 by King Louis XVI to oversee the mapping and maintenance of the 32 sq km of abandoned quarries below the surface of the French capital – an underground space 10 times the size of New York’s Central Park.
Mausoleum
Definition:
(n.) A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
Example Sentences:
(1) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
(2) Iran: 12 dead as Islamic State claims attacks on parliament and shrine Read more The mausoleum where Khomeini was laid to rest almost exactly 28 years ago, on 6 June 1989, is an enormous complex dominating the skyline south of Tehran.
(3) Inside the mausoleum, Cadorna is watched over by 12 statues of soldiers cut from the stone of the Val d'Ossola.
(4) Some startlingly grand privately owned buildings have repeatedly appeared on the annual register of the most important listed buildings at risk – virtually all the HHA properties are listed, and many are also scheduled ancient monuments or set in grade I gardens – including garden buildings and follies at Castle Howard in Yorkshire and Frogmore mausoleum, which holds some of the Queen's ancestors, in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
(5) Other projects have included Angola’s Agostino Neto Mausoleum , which is reported to have cost $55m, and two statues of Robert Mugabe thought to have cost Zimbabwe $5m.
(6) The prime minister bowed her head in respect after laying a large red and white wreath – the colours of Turkey’s flag – before Atatürk’s sarcophagus inside the imposing mausoleum on a hill in the centre of Ankara.
(7) His mausoleum stands in the square; his 4.6 metres (15ft) by 3.7 metres portrait hangs from the gate.
(8) There are inevitable differences of opinion about how best to commemorate the Soviet occupation; Grutas Park in particular has attracted criticism for creating a shrine to communism, rather than a mausoleum for it.
(9) It has a prehistoric, mausoleum kind of quality, its entrance marked with a ghost tree of empty bottles.
(10) We also want to try to improve their living conditions: through our activities we are able to create 140 jobs just in the reconstruction of the mausoleums, then you can add the mosques and the rest.” However, funds for the rebuilding are short.
(11) Fourteen mausoleums destroyed in 2012 have since been restored by the United Nations.
(12) It tackles various instances across three periods in the 20th-century when history has been called on to construct a heroic Persian identity – such as from 1925 to 1941, under the Pahlavi dynasty, when monumental mausoleums drew on ancient forms to honour historic national heroes, while simultaneously using the formal language of modern construction to project into the future.
(13) After staying up all night on Friday, he will put it on and make his way to Garang's mausoleum, where the independence ceremony will occur.
(14) Spain to make first exhumations from civil war mausoleum Read more The Fossar is relatively inaccessible from the city.
(15) The village in which he had been born was graced with a palace, and it was ordained that he should be buried in the nearby family mausoleum, echoing the royal custom of hilltop interment.
(16) Beyond that the similarities end, since Macrinus did not fall out with the emperor's son nor become a gladiator but died a rich man, honoured by his massive mausoleum.
(17) I have my personal favorites such as the Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum but again this is the architect in me talking.
(18) Their remembrance was perpetuated by the building of a mausoleum on which the lying image of the decreased ("le gisant") was chiselled.
(19) He is charged in the destruction of 10 historic buildings including mausoleums and a mosque in Timbuktu.
(20) Islamic radicals who overran Timbuktu in 2012 destroyed 14 of the city’s 16 mausoleums, one-room structures that house the tombs of the city’s great thinkers.