Tomb - English meaning

noun

A two-wheeled handcart used especially by street vendors.

Usage examples:

They sell fruit from market barrows

noun

An ancient burial mound.

Usage examples:

Across britain and ireland there are thousands of iron age barrows and burial mounds, and hundreds …

noun

A male pig castrated before maturity.

noun

An underground cemetery consisting of a subterranean gallery with recesses for tombs, as constructed by the ancient romans.

Usage examples:

While their roman counterparts worshipped in catacombs and underground vaults, the egyptian christi…

noun

A series of underground passages and rooms where bodies were buried in the past

Usage examples:

They went down into catacombs beneath the church.

noun

A hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or dead body, typically marked by a stone or mound.

Usage examples:

The coffin was lowered into the grave

adjective

Giving cause for alarm; serious.

Usage examples:

A matter of grave concern

noun

Another term for grave accent.

noun

A stately or impressive building housing a tomb or group of tombs.

Usage examples:

The cathedral was built in 1517 as a royal mausoleum

noun

A building in which the bodies of dead people are buried

noun

A short period of time.

Usage examples:

Hang on a mo!

abbreviation

Month.

suffix

Forming nouns denoting a book size by the number of leaves into which a sheet of paper has been folded.

Usage examples:

Twelvemo

noun

A container or room in which the bones of dead people are placed.

Usage examples:

The ossuary contains the bones from six different people, including a male aged about sixty.

noun

A place where the bones of dead people are kept

Usage examples:

The bones are sometimes removed to an ossuary to make more room in the cemetery.

noun

A monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient egypt.

Usage examples:

The ancient egyptians used the pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and temples for their gods.

verb

Stack or arrange in the shape of a pyramid.

Usage examples:

What is the " best " way to do the gene pyramiding?

noun

A container for holy relics.

Usage examples:

As the importance of saints and their relics increased, reliquaries and image-bearing objects, such…

noun

A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

Usage examples:

And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre …

verb

Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre.

Usage examples:

Tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries

noun

A stone structure where someone is buried

noun

A place regarded as holy because of its associations with a divinity or a sacred person or relic, marked by a building or other construction.

Usage examples:

The medieval pilgrim route to the shrine of st james

verb

Enshrine.

Usage examples:

A goddess shrined in every tree

noun

A place where people come to worship, usually because of a connection with a holy person or a mysterious religious event or object

noun

The crypt of a church.

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The spatial result resembles a cathedral crypt or an undercroft, yet it is all above ground.

noun

A roof in the form of an arch or a series of arches, typical of churches and other large, formal buildings.

Usage examples:

A gothic ribbed vault

verb

Leap or spring while supporting or propelling oneself with one or both hands or with the help of a pole.

Usage examples:

He vaulted over the gate

noun

An act of vaulting.

Usage examples:

The barman, with a practised vault of the bar, was again serving wine