Meaning of CENOTAPH
| Pronunciation: | | 'senu`taf
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| | Definition: | | [n] a monument built to honor soldiers who died in a war |
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| | See Also: | | memorial, monument | |
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| | Definition: | | Cenotaph
This fifth collection dwells at the crossroads of language and loss, its poems looking for the ways to elegize the poet`s flagging--or lost--faith. The poems are mostly short, but metaphysically searching, lyrics. They puzzle out religious and philosophical questions through a matrix of nature-derived imagery. more details ... |
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| | Definition: | | \Cen"o*taph\ (s[-e]n"[-o]*t[.a]f), n. [Gr. kenota`fion;
keno`s empty + ta`fos burial, tomb: cf. F. c['e]notaphe.]
An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who
is buried elsewhere. --Dryden.
A cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. --Macaulay.
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