Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A grave or other place of burial.
- n. A vault or chamber for burial of the dead.
- n. A monument commemorating the dead.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An excavation in earth or rock, intended to receive the dead body of a human being; a grave; also, a chamber or vault formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, or wholly above ground, for the reception of the dead, whether plain, or decorated by means of architecture, sculpture, etc.; a mausoleum; a sarcophagus. See also cuts under catacomb, Lycian, and altar-tomb.
- n. A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead; any sepulchral structure; a cenotaph.
- n. Same as altar-cavity.
- n. Figuratively, the end of earthly life; death.
- To bury; inter; intomb.
Wiktionary
- n. A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
- v. To bury.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
- n. A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.
- n. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.
- v. To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French tombe, from Late Latin tumba, from Greek tumbos; see teuə- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Cocumella tomb at Vulci, and the Regulini Galeassi tomb_ [Footnote 1:”
“But when we come back, I'll tell you why there's not just one, but three locations vying for the title tomb of Jesus when we come back.”
“If an old priest tells you that the body in the tomb is an undead Spanish nobleman, and you happen to be a credulous cowboy, next time, believe him!”
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“Lastly, a 3D animated narrated tour of a tomb with images and explanation of elements of the tomb is available.”
“And now his tomb is a place whither men resort to pray for rain and ask their requirements of”
“Citium pay particular honor to a certain tomb which they call the tomb of Cimon, according to Nausicrates the rhetorician, who states that in a time of famine, when the crops of their land all failed, they sent to the oracle, which commanded them not to forget Cimon, but give him the honors of a superior being.”
“This room, which you describe as a tomb, or an antechamber of hell, might have been an inner sanctuary, from which blessings might flow out over the whole neighbourhood.”
“Dr. Joann Fletcher contends that a cache of mummies found in tomb KV55 are the bodies of Nefertiti and the Dowager”
“The tomb is also artistically significant, as it is considered the masterpiece of the sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider, in whose workshop it was sculpted from Jura marble from 1499 to 1513.”
“MAJOR SPOILER/BOOKS: It just hit me, what if the vampire who turned Logan and wants to get Katherine out of the tomb is Klaus?”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tomb’.
sonofgroucho This is my favourite tomb:
-- from Son of Groucho - (?)
Jun 23, 2007