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Synonyms for tomb

Grammar : Noun
Spell : toom
Phonetic Transcription : tum

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Définition of tomb

Origin :
  • late 13c., from Anglo-French tumbe, Old French tombe (12c.), from Late Latin tumba (cf. Italian tomba, French tombe, Spanish tumba), from Greek tymbos "burial mound, grave, tomb," from PIE root *teu- "to swell" (see thigh). The final -b began to be silent 14c. (cf. lamb, dumb). The Tombs, slang for "New York City prison" is recorded from 1840.
  • noun burial place
Example sentences :
  • It is a single round, low tower, shaped like the tomb of Cacilia Metella.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • They left it on her breast, in the coffin, and it went with that guilty woman to the tomb.
  • Extract from : « Other Tales and Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • At my departure their tomb had been hidden in the morning mist.
  • Extract from : « Fragments from The Journal of a Solitary Man » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Like the tomb of William the Conqueror at Caen, it disappeared long ago.
  • Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home
  • It should not be a tomb save as upon the fourth day the sepulchre in the garden!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • When Shakespeare died he left some lines to be placed over his tomb.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Pass on, with your burden of mortality, And lay it in the tomb with jolly hearts.
  • Extract from : « Main Street » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • When the tomb of Saint Cecilia was opened an odour of roses came up from her coffin.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • Before dawn she wuz at the door of the tomb, lookin' for His comin'.
  • Extract from : « Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 2. » by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
  • Well, they couldn't make it, because the tomb of a popular saint or sheikh was in the way.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

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