Catacomb Definition

kătə-kōm
catacombs
noun
Any of a series of vaults or galleries in an underground burial place.
Webster's New World
An underground, often labyrinthine passageway.
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Noun

Singular:
catacomb
Plural:
catacombs

Origin of Catacomb

  • From French catacombe, from Italian catacomba, from late Latin catacumbas, Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “under”), Latin cumba (“cavity”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Probably French catacombe from Old French from Late Latin catacumba

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Catacomb Sentence Examples

  • At Taormina in Sicily is a Saracenic catacomb, also Taornlna.

  • This catacomb contains an unquestionable example of a church, divided into a nave and chancel, with a rude stone altar and bishop's seat behind it.

  • Stevenson, since dead, discovered in 1896 a small subterranean basilica in the catacomb of Santi Pietro e Marcellino on the Via Labicana, with pious acclamations on the plaster similar to those in the Papal crypt in St Calixtus.

  • In 5890 the first Christian catacomb bearing a distinct date (491) was discovered.

  • Catacomb of benches cut out of the tufa rock.

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