Tomb

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Tomb, n. [OE. tombe, toumbe, F. tombe, LL. tumba, fr. Gr. a tomb, grave; perhaps akin to L. tumulus a mound. Cf. Tumulus.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]

Tomb bat (Zoöl.), any one of species of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs, especially the Egyptian species (Taphozous perforatus).

Tomb, v. t. 

 To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.  [1913 Webster]
"I tombed my brother that I might be blessed."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Tomb, n.
1 a large esp. underground vault for the burial of the dead.
2 an enclosure cut in the earth or in rock to receive a dead body.
3 a sepulchral monument.
4 (prec. by the) the state of death.

Etymology

ME t(o)umbe f. AF tumbe, OF tombe f. LL tumba f. Gk tumbos

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Tomb

n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently "glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.

THESAURUS

Tomb

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Tomb

Interment

N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.