OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 20673

tomb

/tuːm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tumba
A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
tumba
A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
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