tomb
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tomb /tuːm/
▶noun
- 1 a burial place, especially a large underground vault.
■ a monument to a dead person, erected over their burial place.
- 2 (the tomb) literary death.
– origin ME: from OFr. tombe, from late L. tumba, from Gk tumbos.
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