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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King