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.