Associations to the word «Cenotaph»
Wiktionary
CENOTAPH, noun. A monument erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere; especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.
Dictionary definition
CENOTAPH, noun. A monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.