PMMXa monument built to remind people of soldiers, sailors etc who were killed in a war and are buried somewhere else 〔为葬于别处的阵亡将士立的〕纪念碑
Examples from the Corpus
cenotaph• Mallory's mythicstatus has been secured not only by his goldenappearance, but also by his icycenotaph.• If we do need cenotaphs, what should they be?• Of cenotaphs, he said they should freeze our hearts.• But around the cenotaph they gathered.• No, at a ceremony at the cenotaph he wore the wrong jacket!• And surely the cenotaph itself is as worthy a target as Churchill.
Origincenotaph
(1600-1700)Frenchcénotaphe, from Latin, from Greekkenotaphion, from kenos“empty” + taphos“tomb”