tomb
Meaning of tomb
noun
- A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
- A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
- One who keeps secrets.
verb
To bury.
Information about tomb
- The plural form of tomb is: tombs.
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Hyphenation of tomb
tomb
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- tomb is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
tomb synonyms
Meaning grave:
Translation of tomb
- German: Grab
- French: tombe
- Portuguese: túmulo, sepultura
- Spanish: tumba, sepulcro
- Italian: tomba, sepolcro, tumulo
Words that rhyme with tomb
hecatomb, retomb, disentomb, entomb, intomb, untomb
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