mausoleum: Meaning and Definition of

mau•so•le•um

1. a stately and magnificent tomb.
2. a burial place for the bodies or remains of many individuals, often of a single family, usually in the form of a small building.
3. a large, gloomy, depressing building, room, or the like.
4. (cap.) the tomb erected at Halicarnassus in Asia Minor in 350?b.c.Cf.