Found 3 items, similar to tomb.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: tomb
kuburan, makam
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: tomb
tomb
n : 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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tomb
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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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 (Zo["o]l.), 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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