tomb

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.

   As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.

2. 2
   noun

   One who keeps secrets.

   I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.

3. 3
   noun

   Death (literary)

   I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.

4. 4
   noun

   a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)

5. 5
   noun

   A small building, or a room within one, 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.

6. 6
   verb

   To bury.

7. 7
   name

   A surname transferred from the given name.

Etymology

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.