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Tomb

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Noun

1. grave, tomb

a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)

Example Sentences:
'he put flowers on his mother's grave'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tomb

see synonyms of tomb
noun
1. 
a place, esp a vault beneath the ground, for the burial of a corpse
2. 
a stone or other monument to the dead
3.  the tomb
4. 
anything serving as a burial place
the sea was his tomb
verb
5. (transitive) rare
to place in a tomb; entomb

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Tomb

see synonyms of tomb
noun
1. 
a vault, chamber, or grave for the dead
2. 
a burial monument or cenotaph
verb transitive
3.  Rare
to entomb

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tomb

see synonyms of tomb
n.
1. A grave or other place of burial.
2. A vault or chamber for burial of the dead.
3. A monument commemorating the dead.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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