tomb

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UK /tuːm/ US /tum/

noun 4verb 1name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

ancient, beloved, bottom, inside, large, mysterious

VERB + TOMB

buried, carried, discovered, go, ordered

TOMB + NOUN

grave-mound, i'm, life, unrepentant, virtues

PREP.

from, in, on, upon

Definitions

noun

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

A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.

As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.

One who keeps secrets.

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.

Death (literary)

I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.

verb

To bury.

name

A surname transferred from the given name.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the g

grave

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

from womb to tomb

Synonym of from the cradle to the grave.

Example Bank

As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.

Wiktionary

What is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb.

Tatoeba · #30103

I wonder who's buried in that tomb.

Tatoeba · #68722

"Where is Romeo?" "This way! To the tomb!"

Tatoeba · #73779

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