Meaning of tomb | Babel Free

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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. A surname transferred from the given name.
3. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
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4. A burial place or receptacle for human remains:catacomb, cinerarium, crypt, grave, mausoleum, ossuary, sepulcher, sepulture, vault.
5. One who keeps secrets.
6. a hole or vault in the ground in which a dead body is put; a grave. He was buried in the family tomb. graf, graftombe قَبْر гробница túmulo hrob(ka) das Grab grav; -gravsted τάφος, μνήμαtumba haud قبر hauta tombeקבר कब्र grobnica, grob sír(bolt) kuburan gröf, grafhÿsi/-hvelfing tomba 墓 무덤 kapas kaps makam grafgravgrób قبر، مړستون، ګور، زيارت túmulo mormânt могила; склеп hrob grobnica grob grav, gravvalv หลุมฝังศพ mezar 墳墓 гробниця; склеп; могила مقبرہ nấm mồ 坟墓
7. Death (literary)
8. an ornamental stone placed over a grave on which the dead person's name etc is engraved. grafsteen شاهِد القَبْر надгробен камък lápide náhrobní kámen der Grabstein gravsten ταφόπετραlápida sepulcral hauakivi سنگ قبر hautakivi pierre tombaleמצבה कब्र पर लगाया हुआ या दगारी पत्थर nadgrobni kamen sírkő batu nisan legsteinn lapide 墓石 묘비 antkapis kapakmens batu nisan grafsteengravsteinnagrobek شنخته، خازه، دقبر ډبره lápide piatră de mormânt надгробный памятник náhrobný kameň nagrobnik nadgrobni sp...
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9. A grave or other place of burial.
10. A vault or chamber for burial of the dead.
11. A monument commemorating the dead.
12. a place, esp a vault beneath the ground, for the burial of a corpse
13. a stone or other monument to the dead
14. the tomb a poetic term for death
15. anything serving as a burial place: the sea was his tomb.

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Examples

“As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.”

“I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.”

“I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.”

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