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tomb English

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Meaning tomb meaning

What does tomb mean?

Definitions in simple English

tomb Noun

— A tomb is a large vault for burying the dead (typically made of stone).

tomb

— noun (= grave) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) he put flowers on his mother's grave

Synonyms tomb synonyms

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tomb English » English

grave

sepulchre

sepulcher

mausoleum

vault

cemetery

graveyard

crypt

burial place

tumulus

sepulchral

burial

tombstone

sepulture

rest

residence

pit

mourning

mound

monument

interment

homage

hearse

gravestone

gravesite

deathly

cut

crematorium

coffin

cist

catacomb

burial mound

burial ground

Topics tomb topics

What do people use tomb to talk about?

Person Life Die

Grave

• What words refer to the place where a body is placed?
  grave tomb burial plot sepulcher vault crypt barrow

Examples tomb examples

How do I use tomb in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Looters stole ancient artifacts from the tomb.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Ancient coins were found inside the mysterious tomb.

Where is the prophet's tomb?

Some believe that a curse is cast upon any person who disturbs the tomb of a Pharaoh.

Egypt has announced the discovery of a 3,500-year-old tomb in Luxor.

This ancient tomb is cursed.

St. Peter's Basilica was built on top of St. Peter's tomb.

His tomb is not far away.

I wonder who's buried in that tomb.

Marriage is the tomb of life.

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!

An ancient bronze mirror studded with glass beads was discovered in the tomb looted by the robbers centuries ago.

Archeologists have found pots of perfectly preserved honey while excavating an ancient Egyptian tomb.

This tomb is cursed.

The walls of the tomb were covered with hieroglyphs.

Movie subtitles

The tomb of Emperor YongIe at ChangIing is an appropriate place to reflect on the huge opportunity that China missed.

This is the tomb of Vasco da Gama here in St Jerome's monastery in Lisbon.

Although a murderer's tomb was found in their town, there isn't even one single person who wants to know the truth.

Ah, did you guys come her e because of that bone tomb?

It doesn't matter. Well, when I went to meet you for the bone tomb issue, I had that symptom.

The townspeople won't talk about that bone tomb any longer.

Are you saying Lord Choi had that bones tomb buried?

Bury the bone tomb?

This place, the way it is, it's like a. Like a tomb of Rie's dream that can never come true.

You mean, you think her tomb is there?

Where did you disappear to when we opened the tomb?

That tomb!

What tomb?

Sir Joseph was just wondering how you knew where the tomb of the Princess Anck-es-en-Amon was hidden.

Grant's Tomb.

How did you like Grant's Tomb?

But, darling, you know I'm as silent as a tomb.

Like to see Grant's tomb.

Haven't had a minute to see Grant's tomb.

Grant's tomb and the Statue of Liberty?

Grant's tomb.

What did you send him, Grant's Tomb?

She's only been here two days, so it's overwhelming. I took her to the aquarium, we rode the elevator in the Flatiron Building, and, naturally, we ended up in Grant's Tomb.

Day of Wrath, the mighty trumpet's tone Calls forth the living and the dead And shall rend each tomb's sepulchral stone.

Must you invade even my tomb?

Like Grant's tomb, for instance?

Ain't it amazing how many guys come from Albany to see Grant's tomb?

Wendland visits a leader of the tomb expedition of the Mummy Ma.

All these years, you've been waiting alone.. in this cold, empty tomb.

You want to know about The Indian Tomb trick?

It was quiet like a tomb.

I still pay for his tomb.

Not my tomb.

I couldn't be more surprised if she'd said Grant's tomb.

This is a tomb, mister, with mummies 400 years old.

The curse of the old Egyptian pharaoh when they came to rob his tomb?

They're getting even with me for robbing their tomb.

News and current affairs

Next to Lenin's tomb is Stalin's grave and monument, where heaps of fresh flowers are always to be seen on the anniversaries of his birth, his death, and the victory over Hitler.

The next day, back on Manezhnaya Square, beside the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a huge swastika appeared.

It will be a scene that would easily have been familiar to Soviet leaders like Leonid Brezhnev and Nikita Khrushchev, taking the salute atop Lenin's tomb.

Great significance was read into who signed an official document, or who stood where atop Lenin's Tomb in Red Square when reviewing military parades.

Some 2,000 Shia pilgrims gathered near the mosque that houses the Prophet's tomb for the commemoration of Mohamed's death, an act of worship that the ruling Saudi Wahhabi sect considers heretical and idolatrous.

SYDNEY - The rescue of the 33 Chilean miners, from what was feared would be their tomb, gave the world something to cheer about.