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The definition of a tomb is a vault or chamber where dead people are buried.

(noun)

An example of a tomb is an underground room with coffins.

See tomb in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a vault, chamber, or grave for the dead
a burial monument or cenotaph

Origin: ME toumbe < Anglo-Fr tumbe (OFr tombe) < LL(Ec) tumba < Gr tymbos, tomb, funeral mound < IE *tu-, var. of base *teu-, to swell > thumb, tumor

transitive verb

Rare to entomb

Related Forms:

tombless adjective
tomblike adjective

See tomb in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A grave or other place of burial.
A vault or chamber for burial of the dead.
A monument commemorating the dead.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old French tombe

Origin: , from Late Latin tumba

Origin: , from Greek tumbos; see teuə- in Indo-European roots

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