tomb
/tum/ noun B2- A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
- A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
- One who keeps secrets.
- Death (literary) · I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.
Plural tombs
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It seemed as though Rome, under the magic breath of some demon of the night, had suddenly changed into a vast tomb.
The vision had fled; and as if the statues had been but shadows from the tomb, they had vanished at his waking.
“All I can say is,” continued the countess, taking up the lorgnette, and directing it toward the box in question, “that the gentleman, whose history I am unable to furnish, seems to me as though he had just been dug up; he looks more like a corpse permitted by some friendly grave-digger to quit his tomb for a while, and revisit this earth of ours, than anything human.
The road which the carriage now traversed was the ancient Appian Way, and bordered with tombs.
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