tomb

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A grave or stone structure where a dead person is buried.

   Tourists visit the ancient tomb of the pharaoh.

2. 2
   noun

   Death, used in a literary way.

   He swore he would go to the tomb unrepentant.

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). The verb is from Middle English tomben.

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