Definitions for cenotaphs

cenotaphs cen·o·taph

Spelling: [sen-uh-taf, -tahf]
IPA: /ˈsɛn əˌtæf, -ˌtɑf/

Cenotaphs is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 820 anagrams from letters in cenotaphs (acehnopst).

Definitions for cenotaphs

noun

  1. a sepulchral monument erected in memory of a deceased person whose body is buried elsewhere.

Origin of cenotaphs

1595-1605; Latin cenotaphium Greek kenotáphion, equivalent to kenó(s) empty + -taphion (táph(os) tomb + -ion diminutive suffix)

Examples for cenotaphs

Walking in the rain toward the cenotaph, I observed that about every other person wore a red paper poppy in the lapel.

And a fitting monument of silence is the cenotaph, the empty tomb.

The present chapter is a cenotaph to the French Encyclopædists.

This, however, is only a cenotaph, marking the spot where his heart is preserved.

The cenotaph is engraved with ninety-nine names of the deity.

Others think it may be a cenotaph, built to house Alexander himself but then left empty after Ptolemy made off with his body.

Close by her cenotaph stands the family temple of the Holkars.

So to-night we shall think of him when we pray before the cenotaph.

Humayun's cenotaph, in plain white marble, is in the very centre.

The cenotaph is built entirely of native stone of different varieties.

Word Value for cenotaphs
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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