Tomb
Tomb , noun
[Old English tombe, toumbe, French tombe, Late Latin tumba, from Greek {not transcribed} a tomb, grave; perhaps akin to Latin tumulus a mound. Compare 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.
2.
A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.
In tomb of marble stones.
3.
A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb.
Collocations (1)
Tomb bat (Zoology) , any one of species of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs, especially the Egyptian species (Taphozous perforatus).
Tomb , transitive verb
To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
I tombed my brother that I might be blessed.