Tomb
[tuːm] or [tum]
Definition
(n.) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
(n.) A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.
(n.) A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.
(v. t.) To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
Typist: Psyche
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sepulchre, vault, crypt, catacomb, grave, house of death, narrow house, long home.
Inputed by Elisabeth
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Grave, vault, catacomb, sepulcher, crypt, house_of_death, narrow_house,long_home
Typist: Rodger
Definition
n. a pit or vault in the earth in which a dead body is placed: a tombstone.—adjs. Tomb′ic; Tomb′less without a tomb.—n. Tomb′stone a stone erected over a tomb to preserve the memory of the dead.
Edited by Greg
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing tombs, denotes sadness and disappointments in business. Dilapidated tombs omens death or desperate illness. To dream of seeing your own tomb, portends your individual sickness or disappointments. To read the inscription on tombs, foretells unpleasant duties.
Typed by Lloyd
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them the famous Egyptologist Dr. Huggyns explaining that a tomb may be innocently 'glened ' as soon as its occupant is done 'smellynge the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.
Typist: Robbie
Examples
- There is no coffin in that tomb; and may it be many, many years, before another name is placed above it! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A large marble tomb would not please me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- From Egyptian tomb-paintings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I have lived my last winter, and the date of this year, 2092, will be carved upon my tomb. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I saw the white tomb again, and the veiled woman rising out of it by Hartright's side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I felt I ought to do it, for life is uncertain and I don't want any ill feeling over my tomb. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Go when you will, you find somebody snuffling over that tomb. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There is the fact of the funeral at Limmeridge, and there is the assertion of the inscription on the tomb. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Finally he set aside ten thousand talents (a talent = ?240) for a tomb. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There she would behold the tomb of her parents, and the territory filled with recollections of her father's glory. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There was the marble cross, fair and white, at the head of the tomb--the tomb that now rose over mother and daughter alike. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb, she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- On the next day Laura knew that his death had released her, and that the error and the calamity of her life lay buried in his tomb. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The high walls of the tomb, and the flaming sword of plague, lie between it and him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When Evadne pronounced my death, I thought that the title of Victor of Constantinople would be written on my tomb, and I subdued all mortal fear. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We had two noted tombs near us, too. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- All oracles were at the tombs of Heroes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have pictures of this from ancient Egypt, in which the process of twisting strips of leather into rope is shown on the walls of their tombs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Few tombs on earth command the veneration of so many races and men of divers creeds as this of Joseph. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He took great liberties with the Egyptian temples, and remained at Memphis opening ancient tombs and examining the dead bodies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Are infants to be nut-crackered into their tombs, and is nobody to save them? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In one side of it two ancient tombs are hewn, which are claimed to be those in which Nicodemus and Joseph of Aramathea were buried. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And the names that be upon their tombs, even unto this time, are Johannes Smithianus, Trumps, Gift, High, and Low, Jack, and The Game. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Long she sat at her lattice, long gazed down on the old garden and older church, on the tombs laid out all gray and calm, and clear in moonlight. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The nettles, the long grass, and the tombs all drip with wet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She heard Mr. Helstone come in; she saw Robert stride the tombs and vault the wall; she then went down to prayers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The men filled the mosques; the women, veiled, hastened to the tombs, and carried offerings to the dead, thus to preserve the living. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- These large apartments were tombs. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The tombs are set in soil brought in ships from the Holy Land ages ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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