Definition of Tomb

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Definition of Tomb

Tomb

A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.

A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.

A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.

To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.

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Tomb Quotations

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great

One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.
Hillary Clinton

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.
Lynette Fromme

Marriage is the tomb of love.
Giacomo Casanova

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
Pericles

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emile M. Cioran

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
Stephen Gardiner

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Adolf Loos

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Logan P. Smith

Tomb Translations

tomb in Dutch is groeve, graf
tomb in Finnish is hauta
tomb in French is tombeau, tombe
tomb in German is Grab, Grabmal
tomb in Italian is sepolcro
tomb in Latin is tumbus, sepulchrum
tomb in Norwegian is grav
tomb in Spanish is tumba
tomb in Swedish is grav, grift, gravvalv

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