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A cenotaph is a monument that remembers people who died, usually in war, whose bodies are buried somewhere else — or never found. It is like an empty tomb that still gives a place to stand and remember. Cities often have one in a central square; London’s Cenotaph is the famous example, and people say “the Cenotaph” as if it were a name. You hear the word on remembrance days more than in chat. Though actually, it is not the same as a grave: a grave holds the body; a cenotaph does not.
衣冠塚、無遺體的紀念碑
組成From Greek kenós (empty) + táphos (tomb) — an empty tomb. English took it through French cénotaphe.
同家族的字
- epitaphshares Greek táphos, “tomb”: the words written for someone who has died
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cenotaphname
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A war memorial in Whitehall, London, England.
- Top Gear bosses have defended the show after it was criticised for filming scenes near the Cenotaph in central London.
- Never has the Cenotaph, in its 103 years of standing sentry on Whitehall, been “defended” on Armistice Day by a Port Vale fan supping a can of Stella Artois.
cenotaphnoun/ˈsɛn.əˌtɑːf/
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A monument, generally in the form of an empty tomb, erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere, especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.
- A cenotaph was erected for him in Gaul, while his body was taken to Rome and inclosed in a magnificent tomb.
- […] tombs and cenotaphs were strewed thick around adorned by every renewing vegetation; […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。