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An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.

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  1. n. An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
  2. n. a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered
  3. An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere. Dryden. A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. Macaulay.
  4. An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who isburied elsewhere. Dryden.A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. Macaulay.
  5. n:100 n. a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered