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English Dictionary: tomb by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tomb
n
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): grave, tomb
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
  
                     As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.   --Shak.
  
      2. A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth,
            with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.
            [bd]In tomb of marble stones.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      3. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the
            name and memory of the dead.
  
                     Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb.      --Shak.
  
      {Tomb bat} (Zo[94]l.), any one of species of Old World bats
            of the genus {Taphozous} which inhabit tombs, especially
            the Egyptian species ({T. perforatus}).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tomb \Tomb\,, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tombed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Tombing}.]
      To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
  
               I tombed my brother that I might be blessed. --Chapman.
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