tomb

Meaning

Noun

1. A small building, or a room within one, 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. (broadly) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
3. One who keeps secrets.
4. Death (literary)

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

Translations

tombe

tumba

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tombeau

Grab

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tomba

graf

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τάφος

túmulo

sepulcro

sepultura

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sepolcro

Gruft

tumba

groeve

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tuːm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: tombe

Inherited from Middle English: tomben

In summary

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.