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tomb

/tum/noun1 syllable

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

Synonyms for tomb1

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

grave

What does tomb mean?1

noun

1

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”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with tomb?18

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Tomb in a sentence

  • When their leader died, they placed his body in a large tomb.CK
  • Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!Scott
  • Hope is like grass, which grows even on a tomb.rul
  • That, of course, would effectively preclude the underlying tombs ever being investigated archaeologically.Cangarejo
  • What is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb.CM
  • Life is a journey from womb to tomb.DJ_Saidez
  • The archaeologist found the entrance to the tomb.shekitten
  • The national health service takes care of you from womb to tomb.darinmex

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Forms of tomb

as a noun

plural
tombs