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tomb

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8
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10
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/tuːm/ (UK)
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/tuːm/ (UK) · /tum/ (US) · /ʈumb/

Definition of tomb

6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A small building, or a room within one, 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.
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noun

  1. A small building, or a room within one, 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.
  2. (broadly)A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
    “As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.”
  3. One who keeps secrets.
    “I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.”
  4. Death (literary)
    “I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.”

verb

  1. (transitive)To bury.

name

  1. A surname transferred from the given name.

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Etymology

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). The verb is from Middle English tomben.

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