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tomb
(to͞om)n.
1. A grave or other place of burial.
2. A vault or chamber for burial of the dead.
3. A monument commemorating the dead.
[Middle English, from Old French tombe, from Late Latin tumba, from Greek tumbos; see teuə- in Indo-European roots.]
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tomb
(tuːm)n
1. a place, esp a vault beneath the ground, for the burial of a corpse
2. a stone or other monument to the dead
3. the tomb a poetic term for death
4. anything serving as a burial place: the sea was his tomb.
vb
(tr) rare to place in a tomb; entomb
[C13: from Old French tombe, from Late Latin tumba burial mound, from Greek tumbos; related to Latin tumēre to swell, Middle Irish tomm hill]
ˈtombˌlike adj
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tomb
(tum)n.
1. an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave.
2. a mausoleum, burial chamber, or the like.
3. a monument for housing or commemorating a dead person.
4. any sepulchral structure.
v.t. 5. to place in or as if in a tomb; entomb; bury.
[1225–75; Middle English tumbe < Anglo-French; Old French tombe < Late Latin tumba < Greek týmbos burial mound]
tomb′al, adj.
tomb′like`, adj.
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tomb
- epitaph - From Greek epi, "upon, over," and taphos, "tomb" or "funeral."
- lair - First meant "grave, tomb," or "place where one sleeps."
- pall, pallbearer - Pallbearer is based on pall, which was first a cloth spread over a coffin, hearse, or tomb.
- cromlech - Is Welsh for "arched stone" and means "any megalithic chamber tomb."
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tomb
Past participle: tombed
Gerund: tombing
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| Noun | 1. |  tomb - a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"mastaba, mastabah - an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof; "the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba" place, spot, topographic point - a point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet" |
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tomb
noun grave, vault, crypt, mausoleum, sarcophagus, catacomb, sepulchre, burial chamber the tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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tomb
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hauta
grob
sírsírbolt
gröf, grafhÿsi
墓
무덤
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kaps
grobnica
grav
สุสานฝังศพ
mồ
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tomb
(tuːm) noun a hole or vault in the ground in which a dead body is put; a grave. He was buried in the family tomb.
ˈtombstone noun an ornamental stone placed over a grave on which the dead person's name etc is engraved.
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tomb
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