From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tomb
n 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, tomb]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. --Shak.
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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.
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3. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the
name and memory of the dead.
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Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. --Shak.
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Tomb bat (Zool.), any one of species of Old World bats of
the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs, especially the
Egyptian species (Taphozous perforatus).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tomb \Tomb\,, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tombed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tombing.]
To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
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I tombed my brother that I might be blessed. --Chapman.
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