tomb (redirected from Tombs)

tomb  (tm)

n.

1. A grave or other place of burial.

2. A vault or chamber for burial of the dead.

3. A monument commemorating the dead.

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[Middle English, from Old French tombe, from Late Latin tumba, from Greek tumbos; see teu- in Indo-European roots.]

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tomb

Noun

1. a place for the burial of a corpse

2. a monument over a grave

3. the tomb Poetic death [Greek tumbos]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

tomb - a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave" grave burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture - a chamber that is used as a grave gravestone, tombstone, headstone - a stone that is used to mark a grave mastaba, mastabah - an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof; "the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba" place, spot, topographic point - a point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet"

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tomb

noun grave, vault, crypt, mausoleum, sarcophagus, catacomb, sepulchre, burial chamber

Translations

tomb [tuːm] n → tumba

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tomb [tuːm] n → tombe f

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tomb [tuːm] n → Grab nt

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tomb [tuːm] n → tomba

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tomb

n tomb [tuːm]

a hole or vault in the ground in which a dead body is put; a grave He was buried in the family tomb. graf, graftombe قَبْر гробница hrob(ka) grav; -gravsted das Grab τάφος, μνήμα tumba haud قبر hauta tombe(au) קֶבֶר कब्र grobnica, grob sír(bolt) kuburan gröf, grafhÿsi/-hvelfing tomba 墓 무덤 kapas kaps makam graf grav(kammer) grób túmulo mormânt могила; склеп hrob grobnica grob grav, gravvalv หลุมฝังศพ mezar 墳墓 гробниця; склеп; могила مقبرہ nấm mồ 坟墓

n tombstone

an ornamental stone placed over a grave on which the dead person's name etc is engraved. grafsteen شاهِد القَبْر надгробен камък náhrobní kámen gravsten der Grabstein ταφόπετρα lápida sepulcral hauakivi سنگ قبر hautakivi pierre tombale מַצֵבָה कब्र पर लगाया हुआ या दगारी पत्थर nadgrobni kamen sírkő batu nisan legsteinn lapide 墓石 묘비 antkapis kapakmens batu nisan grafsteen gravstein nagrobek lápide piatră de mormânt надгробный памятник náhrobný kameň nagrobnik nadgrobni spomenik gravsten ศิลาหน้าหลุมฝังศพ mezar taşı 墓碑 надгробний пам'ятник, надгробний камінь لوح قبر، سنگ مزار bia mộ 墓碑