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noun
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.
verb (used with object)
5.
to place in or as if in a tomb; entomb; bury.
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- Bayes's fans have restored his tomb and posted pictures of it on the.
- The tomb contained a wooden coffin decorated with a copper lattice and a gilded mask, sitting on a raised platform.
- Because his tomb had not been robbed at the time of its discovery.
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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 | |
| 5. | rare (tr) 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] | |
| 'tomblike | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
tomb
c.1275, from Anglo-Fr. tumbe, O.Fr. tombe (12c.), from L.L. tumba (cf. It. tomba, Fr. tombe, Sp. tumba), from Gk. tymbos "burial mound, grave, tomb," from PIE base *teu- "to swell" (see thigh). The final -b began to be silent 14c. (cf. lamb,
EXPAND dumb). The Tombs, slang for "New York City prison" is recorded from 1840. A tombstone (1565) originally was a horizontal stone covering a grave (or the lid of a stone coffin); meaning "gravestone, headstone" is attested from 1711.
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