Tomb

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
  • Verb Form
    tombed    tombing    tombs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    topographic point    place    spot   
    Cross Reference
    grave    ledger tomb    high tomb    beehive tomb   
    Hyponym
    Form
    tombed    tombing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    grave    sepulcher    bury    inter    entomb   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bloom    Blum    Blume    Doom    Hume    Khartoum    abloom    assume    bloom    boom   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    monument    temple    shrine    statue    building    chapel    mansion    vault    cave    ruin