cenotaph

1. 1.

   a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered

   Synonymsempty tomb

   Broadermemorial

Other forms of cenotaph

plural

cenotaphs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cenotaph

What does cenotaph mean?

cenotaph means "a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered".

How many syllables are in cenotaph?

cenotaph has 3 syllables: ce-no-taph. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for cenotaph?

Close synonyms include empty tomb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cenotaph a common word?

cenotaph is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.