tomb

Meaning

Noun

1. A small building (or "vault") 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. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
3. One who keeps secrets.

Verb

To bury.

Synonyms

grave

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sepulchre

mausoleum

sepulcher

vault

cemetery

graveyard

crypt

burial place

burial

sepulchral

tumulus

monument

mound

mourning

pit

residence

rest

sepulture

tombstone

burial mound

gravesite

sepulchre

burial ground

catacomb

cist

coffin

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crematorium

cut

deathly

gravestone

hearse

homage

interment

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tuːm/

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.