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Tomb - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Tomb : (noun)
1: 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" [syn: grave]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Tomb : \Tomb\,, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tombed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tombing.]
To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
I tombed my brother that I might be blessed. --Chapman.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Tomb : \Tomb\, n. [OE. tombe, toumbe, F. tombe, LL. tumba, fr. Gr.
? a tomb, grave; perhaps akin to L. tumulus a mound. Cf.
Tumulus.]
1. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is
deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. --Shak.
2. A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth,
with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead. ``In
tomb of marble stones.'' --Chaucer.
3. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the
name and memory of the dead.
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. --Shak.
Tomb bat (Zo["o]l.), any one of species of Old World bats
of the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs, especially
the Egyptian species ({T. perforatus).
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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