MASTABA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mastaba mean? 

• MASTABA (noun)
  The noun MASTABA has 1 sense:

1. an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof

  Familiarity information: MASTABA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASTABA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

mastaba; mastabah

Context example:

the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba

Hypernyms ("mastaba" is a kind of...):

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