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- [toom]
- /tum/
- /tuːm/
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- [toom]
- /tum/
Definitions of tomb word
- noun tomb an excavation in earth or rock for the burial of a corpse; grave. 1
- noun tomb a mausoleum, burial chamber, or the like. 1
- noun tomb a monument for housing or commemorating a dead person. 1
- noun tomb any sepulchral structure. 1
- verb with object tomb to place in or as if in a tomb; entomb; bury. 1
- noun tomb death 1
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Origin of tomb
First appearance:
before 1225 One of the 9% oldest English words
1225-75; Middle English tumbe < Anglo-French; Old French tombe < Late Latin tumba < Greek týmbos burial mound; akin to Latin tumēre to swell. See tumor, tumulus
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Parts of speech for Tomb
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adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tomb popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
tomb usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for tomb
noun tomb
- boneyard — a cemetery; graveyard
- boot hill — a cemetery of a frontier settlement, especially one in which gunfighters were buried.
- cairn — A cairn is a pile of stones which marks a boundary, a route across rough ground, or the top of a mountain. A cairn is sometimes also built in memory of someone.
- cairns — a port in NE Australia, in Queensland. Pop: 98 981 (2001)
- cemetery — A cemetery is a place where dead people's bodies or their ashes are buried.
verb tomb
- bury — To bury something means to put it into a hole in the ground and cover it up with earth.
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- dust off — earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- inearth — (transitive, chiefly poetic) To put into the earth; inter.
- inhume — to bury; inter.
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