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TOMB
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
Example:
he put flowers on his mother's grave
Synonyms:
grave; tomb
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tomb" is a kind of...):
place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)
Meronyms (parts of "tomb"):
gravestone; headstone; tombstone (a stone that is used to mark a grave)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tomb"):
burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)
mastaba; mastabah (an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof)
Context examples:
This necropolis is made up of at least 17 tholos‑type tombs –places used for collective burials– that were excavated between 1968 and 1971.
(The necropolis of El Barranquete in Níjar (Almería), proven to have been used for funerary rituals throughout the Bronze Age, University of Granada)
Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury in that county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
There are some landmarks, observed Mr. Micawber, looking fondly back over his shoulder, on the road to the tomb, which, but for the impiety of the aspiration, a man would wish never to have passed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My conjecture had been correct: the strangers had slipped in before us, and they now stood by the vault of the Rochesters, their backs towards us, viewing through the rails the old time-stained marble tomb, where a kneeling angel guarded the remains of Damer de Rochester, slain at Marston Moor in the time of the civil wars, and of Elizabeth, his wife.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Millions of mummified ibis birds have been found in Egyptian tombs and catacombs in Saqqara and Tuna el-Gebel, and Egyptologists have reported they were sacrificed to the god Thoth, who is often depicted with the head of an ibis, the way Horus is shown with the head of a falcon and Bast with the head of a cat.
(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)
With some little difficulty—for it was very dark, and the whole place seemed so strange to us—we found the Westenra tomb.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
"You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb," she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
We visited the tomb of the illustrious Hampden and the field on which that patriot fell.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The minister said one tomb has five entrances that lead to a rectangular hall where two burial shafts are located on the northern and southern sides of the tomb.
(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)
Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany said the tomb is not in good condition, but it contains a statue of the goldsmith and his wife as well as a funerary mask.
(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
