TOMB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tomb mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOMB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

grave; tomb

Context example:

he put flowers on his mother's grave

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

place; spot; topographic point (a point located with respect to surface features of some region)

Meronyms (parts of "tomb"):

gravestone; headstone; tombstone (a stone that is used to mark a grave)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tomb"):

burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)

mastaba; mastabah (an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof)

 Context examples 

There was silence until he asked again:—And when in the tomb?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was in an iron tomb, buried alive.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It's dull as tombs up here.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Somewhere within that tomb of the flesh still dwelt the soul of the man.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The tombs are collective burial sites, where individuals of both sexes and of all ages were buried.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

The other tomb has a 6-meter burial shaft "leading to four side chambers," which contained artifacts including fragments of wooden coffins.

(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)

I entered it and approached the tomb which marked their graves.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The tomb was discovered by Egyptian archeologists and could boost Egypt's slowly recovering tourism industry.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The other four tombs are believed to date from the Old Kingdom period and are thus at least 4000 years old.

(Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover One-Of-A-Kind Tomb South of Cairo, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

How could you bring a fresh pang to this holy man, who hath endured so much and hath journeyed as far as Christ's own blessed tomb?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)