'Tomb' definitions:
Definition of 'tomb'
From: WordNet
noun
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]
Definition of 'Tomb'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead. [1913 Webster]
- Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Tomb bat (Zool.), any one of species of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs, especially the Egyptian species (Taphozous perforatus). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tomb'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'tomb'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arch,
- barrow,
- beehive tomb,
- bone house,
- boundary stone,
- box,
- box grave,
- brass,
- burial,
- burial chamber,
- burial mound,
- bust,
- cairn,
- catacomb,
- catacombs,
- cenotaph,
- charnel house,
- cist,
- cist grave,
- coffin,
- column,
- cromlech,
- cross,
- crypt,
- cup,
- cyclolith,
- deep six,
- dokhma,
- dolmen,
- ensepulcher,
- entomb,
- footstone,
- grave,
- gravestone,
- headstone,
- hoarstone,
- house of death,
- inhume,
- inscription,
- inter,
- last home,
- lay away,
- long home,
- low green tent,
- low house,
- marker,
- mastaba,
- mausoleum,
- megalith,
- memento,
- memorial,
- memorial arch,
- memorial column,
- memorial statue,
- memorial stone,
- menhir,
- monolith,
- monstrance,
- monument,
- mound,
- mummy chamber,
- narrow house,
- necrology,
- obelisk,
- obituary,
- ossuarium,
- ossuary,
- passage grave,
- pillar,
- pit,
- plant,
- plaque,
- prize,
- put away,
- pyramid,
- reliquary,
- remembrance,
- resting place,
- ribbon,
- rostral column,
- sepulcher,
- sepulture,
- shaft,
- shaft grave,
- shrine,
- stela,
- stone,
- stupa,
- tablet,
- testimonial,
- tombstone,
- tope,
- tower of silence,
- trophy,
- trough,
- tumulus,
- vault