English to afrikaans meaning of

mausoleum

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "mausoleum" is 'n groot, indrukwekkende graf of gebou wat die oorblyfsels van 'n prominente persoon of 'n familie huisves. Dit word dikwels gebruik om te verwys na 'n struktuur wat ontwerp is om 'n monument te wees ter herinnering aan 'n persoon of persone wat oorlede is, en word tipies gekenmerk deur sy grootsheid, argitektoniese detail en historiese betekenis. Die term is afgelei van die Mausoleum by Halikarnassus, een van die Sewe Wonders van die Antieke Wêreld, wat 'n monumentale graf was wat in die 4de eeu vC gebou is vir die Persiese satrap Mausolus en sy koningin Artemisia II.

Sentence Examples

  1. However, if one designs to construct a dwelling house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead.
  2. The wife rounded a mausoleum ahead, cutting off my escape route.
  3. They crossed between the fallen statues into a Trajan mausoleum, not unlike the graveyard Janis had originally chased Ruck into back at the village.
  4. When the procession stopped, this shadow was recognized as Morrel, who, with his coat buttoned up to his throat, his face livid, and convulsively crushing his hat between his fingers, leaned against a tree, situated on an elevation commanding the mausoleum, so that none of the funeral details could escape his observation.
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