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  • unknown soldier

    an unidentified soldier killed in battle and buried with honors, the tomb serving as a memorial to all the unidentified dead of a nation's armed forces. The tomb of the American Unknown Soldier, commemorating a serviceman killed in World War I, was established in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia in 1921. In 1958, the remains of personnel of World War II and the Korean War were buried alongside the tomb (now called the Tomb of the Unknowns, ). In 1984, a serviceman of the Vietnam War was interred next to the others.

  • dolmen

    a structure usually regarded as a tomb, consisting of two or more large, upright stones set with a space between and capped by a horizontal stone.

  • epitaph

    A phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone.

  • mausoleum

    a stately and magnificent tomb.

  • beehive tomb

    a type of subterranean tomb of the Mycenaean civilization consisting of a domed chamber entered by a passage through a hillside.

  • chamber tomb

    a prehistoric tomb with a chamber inside it in which the body of an important person was laid to rest
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