tomb
IPA: tˈum
noun
- 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.
- A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
- One who keeps secrets.
- A surname transferred from the given name.
verb
- (transitive) To bury.
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Examples of "tomb" in Sentences
- Cocumella tomb at Vulci, and the Regulini Galeassi tomb_ [Footnote 1:
- And now his tomb is a place whither men resort to pray for rain and ask their requirements of
- Lastly, a 3D animated narrated tour of a tomb with images and explanation of elements of the tomb is available.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
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