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tomb

UK/tuːm/ US/tum/ fairly common

noun

1.

a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)

  • “he put flowers on his mother”
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Origin

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Displaced native Old English þrūh. The verb is from Middle English tomben.

Phrases

  • altar tomb
  • beehive tomb
  • chamber tomb
  • empty as the tomb on Easter
  • passage tomb
  • Severn-Cotswold tomb
  • the womb to the tomb
  • womb to tomb

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