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stupa
CIDE DICTIONARY
stupa, n. [Skr. st.].
A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha. [1913 Webster]
stupa, n. [L.].
See 1st Stupe. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stupa, n. a round usu. domed building erected as a Buddhist shrine.
Etymology
Skr. stupa
THESAURUS
stupa
antenna tower, arch, barbican, barrow, beehive tomb, belfry, bell tower, bone house, boundary stone, box grave, brass, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, bust, cairn, campanile, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist, cist grave, colossus, column, cromlech, cross, crypt, cup, cupola, cyclolith, dagoba, deep six, delubrum, derrick, dokhma, dolmen, dome, fire tower, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, holy place, house of death, inscription, lantern, last home, lighthouse, long home, low green tent, low house, marker, martello, martello tower, mast, mastaba, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, minaret, monolith, monstrance, monument, mound, mummy chamber, naos, narrow house, necrology, obelisk, obituary, observation tower, ossuarium, ossuary, pagoda, passage grave, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, pit, plaque, pole, prize, pylon, pyramid, reliquaire, reliquary, remembrance, resting place, ribbon, rostral column, sacrarium, sepulcher, shaft, shaft grave, shrine, skyscraper, spire, standpipe, steeple, stela, stone, tablet, television mast, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tour, tower, tower of silence, trophy, tumulus, turret, vault, water tower, windmill towerROGET THESAURUS
stupa
Interment
N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.For further exploring for "stupa" in Webster Dictionary Online
