Definition of tomb in English:

tomb

noun tuːmtum

1A large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead.
坟墓，冢；葬身之地
Example sentencesExamples
- Finally, elaborate megalithic art in Ireland is found only at passage tombs.
- It is England's oldest borough; Athelstan, the first king of England was initially buried here and his tomb remains in the abbey.
- The corpse was moved from the private bedchamber to the tomb in a public procession not unlike that at a wedding, with the family marching in hierarchical order.
- These range in date from the pre-Reformation tombs in St Magnus Cathedral to memorials erected after the Second World War.
- In 1612, her son and the now king of England, James, brought his mother's body to Westminster Abbey where she was buried in a magnificent tomb.
- This is the town where Padro Pio spent most of his life and is buried in the tomb in the friary.
- Oh yes, some of those tombs and vaults are more than 250 years old.
- He is buried in an elaborate tomb in New York, a place he never liked.
- One can be gripped by a vague feeling of claustrophobia, as if entering an underground tomb.
- The shrine was once a beautiful golden palace but the years had worn away its natural beauty and now only some walls, statues and the underground tombs remained.
- The marble tombs had been smashed open and the bones and skulls lay scattered carelessly around the overgrown graveyard.
- The tomb, which is situated in the church of San Giovanni Rotondo, in Foggia, southern Italy, is visited by almost seven million people a year.
- However, the underground chambers of the tombs are well preserved, though they have long been emptied of their contents.
- This woman died and was buried in her family tomb.
- Most knights' bones never got into charnels; they were safely enclosed in tombs inside a church.
- From the late Middle Ages onward, Italian churches were increasingly filled with an abundance of elaborate family tombs.
- These funeral towers, or chullpas, have been heavily looted and were empty, but skeletons were found in the underground tombs.
- He was buried ‘in the bare earth’ as he requested, not in a marble tomb like many of his predecessors.
- The megalithic passage tomb is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise.
- The main body of the tomb was set into the hillside and covered with earth thereby using the heat of the earth to keep the building from freezing.
Synonyms
burial chamber, burial place, sepulchre, mausoleum, vault, crypt, undercroft, catacomb, pyramid, charnel house, shrine, ossuary, reliquary
last/final resting place, grave, barrow, burial mound, burial pit
monument, memorial, cenotaph, marker
Archaeology mastaba
rare feretory
1. 1.1 An enclosure for a corpse cut in the earth or in rock.
  土棺；石棺
  Example sentencesExamples
  The corpse is washed, wrapped in a shroud, carried to the cemetery by a group of mourners, and buried in a tomb.
  Our junket included stops at the ruins of a Roman coliseum, a sulfur mud bath, and some ancient Lycean rock tombs - all sites inaccessible by car or bus.
  Important individuals were typically interred in log-lined tombs which were burnt and then covered by a conical earth mound up to 20m high.
  It is believed that corpses that have been removed from their tombs may be turned into zombies, who then serve the will of their masters.
  Among the monuments is the tomb in the north aisle of Sir Robert Dormer, a rare example of early Renaissance work, dated 1552.
  It's also the city of the dead that Cèline remembers having visited as a child, of the nameless tombs of suicides and of Mozart buried in a pauper's grave.
  Others tell of how our ancestors treated their dead, through their tombs and graves - which have often been excavated by archaeologists.
  It resembles the rock cut chambered tombs of the Mediterranean, though it is probably of local inspiration.
  It is apparent that this is a rich man's tomb, carefully carved out of solid rock.
  All join in pushing the earth to cover the tombs.
  Although Spencer created many wildly imaginative scenes such as the dead rising from their tombs in the churchyard, nearly all his paintings were set in the Berkshire village of Cookham where he lived.
  The elite were often buried in log-lined tombs within the charnel houses, accompanied by a selection of rich grave goods.
  In 1923 Sir Flinders Petrie found another cache of fossils at Qua, wrapped in linen and carefully stored in rock tombs.
  The body was discovered by grave diggers who went to the cemetery to prepare a tomb and were then drawn to the corpse by a screaming passer-by.
  On this day, families visit the tombs of their ancestors and clean the burial ground.
  ‘It is sad but we are relieved that we will now be able to bury him and visit his tomb when we want,’ he said.
2. 1.2 A monument to the memory of a dead person, erected over their burial place.
  墓碑
  Example sentencesExamples
  Rich merchants erected extravagant public buildings and temples and tombs, living and dying in sumptuous style.
  This tomb is situated 280 km from Mumbai and 190 km away from Nasik.
  The project's main aim was to study monumental tombs and funerary practices - a tough enough task on its own - and in the applications for funding we hadn't dared mention the hunt for a shipwrecked sailor.
  The magnificent tomb over the burial place, with its shrine-like features, is court art: court art carried from Westminster to Gloucester.
  Initially it was thought that the Maya pyramids did not serve as tombs, but recent explorations have identified burial sites within some of them.
  The burial was not within the tomb itself, but along the external walls of the monument.
  Abera is now a worthy successor to his great predecessor, whose premature death in 1973 is marked by a monumental tomb in Addis Ababa.
  Perhaps the most outstanding manifestation of such devotion is the Taj Mahal, erected by the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan as a tomb for his dead wife.
  This Greek-temple-like tomb was erected in 1901 by Dr John Springthorpe, in memory of his wife Annie, who had died in childbirth four years earlier.
  Her son Henry erected a tomb over her grave at Fontevraud.
  The increasingly centralised organisation of the third millennium BC created a disciplined labour force, which was used to build vast royal monuments and elite tombs.
  Once freed of its contents, it became possible to examine the wall paintings in the only decorated room in the entire tomb, the burial chamber.
  He asks Wiglaf to build a monument, a tomb where King Beowulf's ashes will be buried, a high tower over the old one, so sailors will see it and speak of it forevermore.
  The tomb, situated in an elevated position at the end of a rocky gorge, is a well-preserved architectural and artistic masterpiece.
  The Romans erected a tomb in his honor inscribed with the image of a sphere within a cylinder in tribute to his great mathematical discoveries.
  In Egypt pyramids were used as monumental tombs, whereas in Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and South America they were temple platforms.
  The great pyramids were burial tombs for the pharaohs who were revered as gods on earth.
  Elizabethan monuments were not only funeral buildings like tombs, churches or charnel-houses.
  The monumental tomb was an identical copy of the tomb of Lenin, which can still be seen in Moscow.
  The second type of tomb was erected as a monument to honour the dead and to preserve their memory.
3. 1.3 Used in similes and metaphors to refer to a place or situation that is extremely cold, quiet, or dark, or that forms a confining enclosure.
  一片死寂（或冰冷、阴森森）
  the house was as quiet as a tomb
  屋子死气沉沉。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The cell was as quiet as a tomb.
  Before the sirens, the confusion saw cutting metal freeing her from a tomb of steel.
  She glared at the him with fire in her eyes, but she held her peace as both stared each other down while the room became quiet as a tomb.
  Inside was as dark as a tomb.
  His footsteps were ten times louder when there was no other sound; no servants working or glass trinkets falling made the palace quieter than a tomb.
  The door to the office shut out the noise in the hall outside; inside, it was quiet as a tomb.
  For three days now you've been quiet at a tomb and almost sullen.
  When Lord Rawley's butler announced Amanda, the ballroom turned as quiet as a tomb.
  The inside of the camp was quiet as a tomb and Dallas didn't feel very welcome in it.
  But the space was small enough to feel as if the walls were closing in, and it was dark as a tomb.
  The parking garage sprawled in front of me, quiet as a tomb.
  The top of the house seems to go on forever, as dark and quiet as a tomb.
  The right wing hall stood empty and quiet as a tomb.
  She's whipped the place into shape and everything's sparkly clean, not to mention the fact that the place is as quiet as a tomb, aside from the tapping of keyboards or phone ringing.
4. 1.4the tombliterary Death.
  none escape the tomb
  万物皆难逃一死。

Origin

Middle English: from Old French tombe, from late Latin tumba, from Greek tumbos.

Rhymes

abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, vroom, whom, womb, zoom

Definition of tomb in US English:

tomb

nounto͞omtum

1A large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead.
坟墓，冢；葬身之地
Example sentencesExamples
- These funeral towers, or chullpas, have been heavily looted and were empty, but skeletons were found in the underground tombs.
- He is buried in an elaborate tomb in New York, a place he never liked.
- In 1612, her son and the now king of England, James, brought his mother's body to Westminster Abbey where she was buried in a magnificent tomb.
- This woman died and was buried in her family tomb.
- One can be gripped by a vague feeling of claustrophobia, as if entering an underground tomb.
- The shrine was once a beautiful golden palace but the years had worn away its natural beauty and now only some walls, statues and the underground tombs remained.
- Most knights' bones never got into charnels; they were safely enclosed in tombs inside a church.
- It is England's oldest borough; Athelstan, the first king of England was initially buried here and his tomb remains in the abbey.
- These range in date from the pre-Reformation tombs in St Magnus Cathedral to memorials erected after the Second World War.
- The marble tombs had been smashed open and the bones and skulls lay scattered carelessly around the overgrown graveyard.
- From the late Middle Ages onward, Italian churches were increasingly filled with an abundance of elaborate family tombs.
- The tomb, which is situated in the church of San Giovanni Rotondo, in Foggia, southern Italy, is visited by almost seven million people a year.
- The corpse was moved from the private bedchamber to the tomb in a public procession not unlike that at a wedding, with the family marching in hierarchical order.
- Oh yes, some of those tombs and vaults are more than 250 years old.
- The megalithic passage tomb is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise.
- This is the town where Padro Pio spent most of his life and is buried in the tomb in the friary.
- Finally, elaborate megalithic art in Ireland is found only at passage tombs.
- However, the underground chambers of the tombs are well preserved, though they have long been emptied of their contents.
- He was buried ‘in the bare earth’ as he requested, not in a marble tomb like many of his predecessors.
- The main body of the tomb was set into the hillside and covered with earth thereby using the heat of the earth to keep the building from freezing.
Synonyms
burial chamber, burial place, sepulchre, mausoleum, vault, crypt, undercroft, catacomb, pyramid, charnel house, shrine, ossuary, reliquary
1. 1.1 An enclosure for a corpse cut in the earth or in rock.
  土棺；石棺
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's also the city of the dead that Cèline remembers having visited as a child, of the nameless tombs of suicides and of Mozart buried in a pauper's grave.
  It is believed that corpses that have been removed from their tombs may be turned into zombies, who then serve the will of their masters.
  It resembles the rock cut chambered tombs of the Mediterranean, though it is probably of local inspiration.
  On this day, families visit the tombs of their ancestors and clean the burial ground.
  ‘It is sad but we are relieved that we will now be able to bury him and visit his tomb when we want,’ he said.
  Among the monuments is the tomb in the north aisle of Sir Robert Dormer, a rare example of early Renaissance work, dated 1552.
  The elite were often buried in log-lined tombs within the charnel houses, accompanied by a selection of rich grave goods.
  All join in pushing the earth to cover the tombs.
  The corpse is washed, wrapped in a shroud, carried to the cemetery by a group of mourners, and buried in a tomb.
  Although Spencer created many wildly imaginative scenes such as the dead rising from their tombs in the churchyard, nearly all his paintings were set in the Berkshire village of Cookham where he lived.
  Others tell of how our ancestors treated their dead, through their tombs and graves - which have often been excavated by archaeologists.
  Important individuals were typically interred in log-lined tombs which were burnt and then covered by a conical earth mound up to 20m high.
  The body was discovered by grave diggers who went to the cemetery to prepare a tomb and were then drawn to the corpse by a screaming passer-by.
  Our junket included stops at the ruins of a Roman coliseum, a sulfur mud bath, and some ancient Lycean rock tombs - all sites inaccessible by car or bus.
  It is apparent that this is a rich man's tomb, carefully carved out of solid rock.
  In 1923 Sir Flinders Petrie found another cache of fossils at Qua, wrapped in linen and carefully stored in rock tombs.
2. 1.2 A monument to the memory of a dead person, erected over their burial place.
  墓碑
  Example sentencesExamples
  Her son Henry erected a tomb over her grave at Fontevraud.
  The second type of tomb was erected as a monument to honour the dead and to preserve their memory.
  The monumental tomb was an identical copy of the tomb of Lenin, which can still be seen in Moscow.
  The great pyramids were burial tombs for the pharaohs who were revered as gods on earth.
  The increasingly centralised organisation of the third millennium BC created a disciplined labour force, which was used to build vast royal monuments and elite tombs.
  The project's main aim was to study monumental tombs and funerary practices - a tough enough task on its own - and in the applications for funding we hadn't dared mention the hunt for a shipwrecked sailor.
  In Egypt pyramids were used as monumental tombs, whereas in Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and South America they were temple platforms.
  This tomb is situated 280 km from Mumbai and 190 km away from Nasik.
  This Greek-temple-like tomb was erected in 1901 by Dr John Springthorpe, in memory of his wife Annie, who had died in childbirth four years earlier.
  The tomb, situated in an elevated position at the end of a rocky gorge, is a well-preserved architectural and artistic masterpiece.
  The Romans erected a tomb in his honor inscribed with the image of a sphere within a cylinder in tribute to his great mathematical discoveries.
  Elizabethan monuments were not only funeral buildings like tombs, churches or charnel-houses.
  Abera is now a worthy successor to his great predecessor, whose premature death in 1973 is marked by a monumental tomb in Addis Ababa.
  He asks Wiglaf to build a monument, a tomb where King Beowulf's ashes will be buried, a high tower over the old one, so sailors will see it and speak of it forevermore.
  The magnificent tomb over the burial place, with its shrine-like features, is court art: court art carried from Westminster to Gloucester.
  The burial was not within the tomb itself, but along the external walls of the monument.
  Once freed of its contents, it became possible to examine the wall paintings in the only decorated room in the entire tomb, the burial chamber.
  Rich merchants erected extravagant public buildings and temples and tombs, living and dying in sumptuous style.
  Perhaps the most outstanding manifestation of such devotion is the Taj Mahal, erected by the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan as a tomb for his dead wife.
  Initially it was thought that the Maya pyramids did not serve as tombs, but recent explorations have identified burial sites within some of them.
3. 1.3 Used in similes and metaphors to refer to a place or situation that is extremely cold, quiet, or dark, or that forms a confining enclosure.
  一片死寂（或冰冷、阴森森）
  the house was as quiet as a tomb
  屋子死气沉沉。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She glared at the him with fire in her eyes, but she held her peace as both stared each other down while the room became quiet as a tomb.
  But the space was small enough to feel as if the walls were closing in, and it was dark as a tomb.
  When Lord Rawley's butler announced Amanda, the ballroom turned as quiet as a tomb.
  She's whipped the place into shape and everything's sparkly clean, not to mention the fact that the place is as quiet as a tomb, aside from the tapping of keyboards or phone ringing.
  The inside of the camp was quiet as a tomb and Dallas didn't feel very welcome in it.
  Inside was as dark as a tomb.
  The right wing hall stood empty and quiet as a tomb.
  His footsteps were ten times louder when there was no other sound; no servants working or glass trinkets falling made the palace quieter than a tomb.
  The parking garage sprawled in front of me, quiet as a tomb.
  The cell was as quiet as a tomb.
  The door to the office shut out the noise in the hall outside; inside, it was quiet as a tomb.
  The top of the house seems to go on forever, as dark and quiet as a tomb.
  For three days now you've been quiet at a tomb and almost sullen.
  Before the sirens, the confusion saw cutting metal freeing her from a tomb of steel.
4. 1.4the tombliterary Death.
  none escape the tomb
  万物皆难逃一死。

Origin

Middle English: from Old French tombe, from late Latin tumba, from Greek tumbos.

词汇	tomb
释义	Definition of tomb in English: tomb noun tuːmtum 1A large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead. 坟墓，冢；葬身之地 Example sentencesExamples Finally, elaborate megalithic art in Ireland is found only at passage tombs. It is England's oldest borough; Athelstan, the first king of England was initially buried here and his tomb remains in the abbey. The corpse was moved from the private bedchamber to the tomb in a public procession not unlike that at a wedding, with the family marching in hierarchical order. These range in date from the pre-Reformation tombs in St Magnus Cathedral to memorials erected after the Second World War. In 1612, her son and the now king of England, James, brought his mother's body to Westminster Abbey where she was buried in a magnificent tomb. This is the town where Padro Pio spent most of his life and is buried in the tomb in the friary. Oh yes, some of those tombs and vaults are more than 250 years old. He is buried in an elaborate tomb in New York, a place he never liked. One can be gripped by a vague feeling of claustrophobia, as if entering an underground tomb. The shrine was once a beautiful golden palace but the years had worn away its natural beauty and now only some walls, statues and the underground tombs remained. The marble tombs had been smashed open and the bones and skulls lay scattered carelessly around the overgrown graveyard. The tomb, which is situated in the church of San Giovanni Rotondo, in Foggia, southern Italy, is visited by almost seven million people a year. However, the underground chambers of the tombs are well preserved, though they have long been emptied of their contents. This woman died and was buried in her family tomb. Most knights' bones never got into charnels; they were safely enclosed in tombs inside a church. From the late Middle Ages onward, Italian churches were increasingly filled with an abundance of elaborate family tombs. These funeral towers, or chullpas, have been heavily looted and were empty, but skeletons were found in the underground tombs. He was buried ‘in the bare earth’ as he requested, not in a marble tomb like many of his predecessors. The megalithic passage tomb is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise. The main body of the tomb was set into the hillside and covered with earth thereby using the heat of the earth to keep the building from freezing. Synonyms burial chamber, burial place, sepulchre, mausoleum, vault, crypt, undercroft, catacomb, pyramid, charnel house, shrine, ossuary, reliquary last/final resting place, grave, barrow, burial mound, burial pit monument, memorial, cenotaph, marker Archaeology mastaba rare feretory 1.1 An enclosure for a corpse cut in the earth or in rock. 土棺；石棺 Example sentencesExamples The corpse is washed, wrapped in a shroud, carried to the cemetery by a group of mourners, and buried in a tomb. Our junket included stops at the ruins of a Roman coliseum, a sulfur mud bath, and some ancient Lycean rock tombs - all sites inaccessible by car or bus. Important individuals were typically interred in log-lined tombs which were burnt and then covered by a conical earth mound up to 20m high. It is believed that corpses that have been removed from their tombs may be turned into zombies, who then serve the will of their masters. Among the monuments is the tomb in the north aisle of Sir Robert Dormer, a rare example of early Renaissance work, dated 1552. It's also the city of the dead that Cèline remembers having visited as a child, of the nameless tombs of suicides and of Mozart buried in a pauper's grave. Others tell of how our ancestors treated their dead, through their tombs and graves - which have often been excavated by archaeologists. It resembles the rock cut chambered tombs of the Mediterranean, though it is probably of local inspiration. It is apparent that this is a rich man's tomb, carefully carved out of solid rock. All join in pushing the earth to cover the tombs. Although Spencer created many wildly imaginative scenes such as the dead rising from their tombs in the churchyard, nearly all his paintings were set in the Berkshire village of Cookham where he lived. The elite were often buried in log-lined tombs within the charnel houses, accompanied by a selection of rich grave goods. In 1923 Sir Flinders Petrie found another cache of fossils at Qua, wrapped in linen and carefully stored in rock tombs. The body was discovered by grave diggers who went to the cemetery to prepare a tomb and were then drawn to the corpse by a screaming passer-by. On this day, families visit the tombs of their ancestors and clean the burial ground. ‘It is sad but we are relieved that we will now be able to bury him and visit his tomb when we want,’ he said. 1.2 A monument to the memory of a dead person, erected over their burial place. 墓碑 Example sentencesExamples Rich merchants erected extravagant public buildings and temples and tombs, living and dying in sumptuous style. This tomb is situated 280 km from Mumbai and 190 km away from Nasik. The project's main aim was to study monumental tombs and funerary practices - a tough enough task on its own - and in the applications for funding we hadn't dared mention the hunt for a shipwrecked sailor. The magnificent tomb over the burial place, with its shrine-like features, is court art: court art carried from Westminster to Gloucester. Initially it was thought that the Maya pyramids did not serve as tombs, but recent explorations have identified burial sites within some of them. The burial was not within the tomb itself, but along the external walls of the monument. Abera is now a worthy successor to his great predecessor, whose premature death in 1973 is marked by a monumental tomb in Addis Ababa. Perhaps the most outstanding manifestation of such devotion is the Taj Mahal, erected by the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan as a tomb for his dead wife. This Greek-temple-like tomb was erected in 1901 by Dr John Springthorpe, in memory of his wife Annie, who had died in childbirth four years earlier. Her son Henry erected a tomb over her grave at Fontevraud. The increasingly centralised organisation of the third millennium BC created a disciplined labour force, which was used to build vast royal monuments and elite tombs. Once freed of its contents, it became possible to examine the wall paintings in the only decorated room in the entire tomb, the burial chamber. He asks Wiglaf to build a monument, a tomb where King Beowulf's ashes will be buried, a high tower over the old one, so sailors will see it and speak of it forevermore. The tomb, situated in an elevated position at the end of a rocky gorge, is a well-preserved architectural and artistic masterpiece. The Romans erected a tomb in his honor inscribed with the image of a sphere within a cylinder in tribute to his great mathematical discoveries. In Egypt pyramids were used as monumental tombs, whereas in Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and South America they were temple platforms. The great pyramids were burial tombs for the pharaohs who were revered as gods on earth. Elizabethan monuments were not only funeral buildings like tombs, churches or charnel-houses. The monumental tomb was an identical copy of the tomb of Lenin, which can still be seen in Moscow. The second type of tomb was erected as a monument to honour the dead and to preserve their memory. 1.3 Used in similes and metaphors to refer to a place or situation that is extremely cold, quiet, or dark, or that forms a confining enclosure. 一片死寂（或冰冷、阴森森） the house was as quiet as a tomb 屋子死气沉沉。 Example sentencesExamples The cell was as quiet as a tomb. Before the sirens, the confusion saw cutting metal freeing her from a tomb of steel. She glared at the him with fire in her eyes, but she held her peace as both stared each other down while the room became quiet as a tomb. Inside was as dark as a tomb. His footsteps were ten times louder when there was no other sound; no servants working or glass trinkets falling made the palace quieter than a tomb. The door to the office shut out the noise in the hall outside; inside, it was quiet as a tomb. For three days now you've been quiet at a tomb and almost sullen. When Lord Rawley's butler announced Amanda, the ballroom turned as quiet as a tomb. The inside of the camp was quiet as a tomb and Dallas didn't feel very welcome in it. But the space was small enough to feel as if the walls were closing in, and it was dark as a tomb. The parking garage sprawled in front of me, quiet as a tomb. The top of the house seems to go on forever, as dark and quiet as a tomb. The right wing hall stood empty and quiet as a tomb. She's whipped the place into shape and everything's sparkly clean, not to mention the fact that the place is as quiet as a tomb, aside from the tapping of keyboards or phone ringing. 1.4the tombliterary Death. none escape the tomb 万物皆难逃一死。 Origin Middle English: from Old French tombe, from late Latin tumba, from Greek tumbos. Rhymes abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, vroom, whom, womb, zoom Definition of tomb in US English: tomb nounto͞omtum 1A large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead. 坟墓，冢；葬身之地 Example sentencesExamples These funeral towers, or chullpas, have been heavily looted and were empty, but skeletons were found in the underground tombs. He is buried in an elaborate tomb in New York, a place he never liked. In 1612, her son and the now king of England, James, brought his mother's body to Westminster Abbey where she was buried in a magnificent tomb. This woman died and was buried in her family tomb. One can be gripped by a vague feeling of claustrophobia, as if entering an underground tomb. The shrine was once a beautiful golden palace but the years had worn away its natural beauty and now only some walls, statues and the underground tombs remained. Most knights' bones never got into charnels; they were safely enclosed in tombs inside a church. It is England's oldest borough; Athelstan, the first king of England was initially buried here and his tomb remains in the abbey. These range in date from the pre-Reformation tombs in St Magnus Cathedral to memorials erected after the Second World War. The marble tombs had been smashed open and the bones and skulls lay scattered carelessly around the overgrown graveyard. From the late Middle Ages onward, Italian churches were increasingly filled with an abundance of elaborate family tombs. The tomb, which is situated in the church of San Giovanni Rotondo, in Foggia, southern Italy, is visited by almost seven million people a year. The corpse was moved from the private bedchamber to the tomb in a public procession not unlike that at a wedding, with the family marching in hierarchical order. Oh yes, some of those tombs and vaults are more than 250 years old. The megalithic passage tomb is illuminated by the winter solstice sunrise. This is the town where Padro Pio spent most of his life and is buried in the tomb in the friary. Finally, elaborate megalithic art in Ireland is found only at passage tombs. However, the underground chambers of the tombs are well preserved, though they have long been emptied of their contents. He was buried ‘in the bare earth’ as he requested, not in a marble tomb like many of his predecessors. The main body of the tomb was set into the hillside and covered with earth thereby using the heat of the earth to keep the building from freezing. Synonyms burial chamber, burial place, sepulchre, mausoleum, vault, crypt, undercroft, catacomb, pyramid, charnel house, shrine, ossuary, reliquary 1.1 An enclosure for a corpse cut in the earth or in rock. 土棺；石棺 Example sentencesExamples It's also the city of the dead that Cèline remembers having visited as a child, of the nameless tombs of suicides and of Mozart buried in a pauper's grave. It is believed that corpses that have been removed from their tombs may be turned into zombies, who then serve the will of their masters. It resembles the rock cut chambered tombs of the Mediterranean, though it is probably of local inspiration. On this day, families visit the tombs of their ancestors and clean the burial ground. ‘It is sad but we are relieved that we will now be able to bury him and visit his tomb when we want,’ he said. Among the monuments is the tomb in the north aisle of Sir Robert Dormer, a rare example of early Renaissance work, dated 1552. The elite were often buried in log-lined tombs within the charnel houses, accompanied by a selection of rich grave goods. All join in pushing the earth to cover the tombs. The corpse is washed, wrapped in a shroud, carried to the cemetery by a group of mourners, and buried in a tomb. Although Spencer created many wildly imaginative scenes such as the dead rising from their tombs in the churchyard, nearly all his paintings were set in the Berkshire village of Cookham where he lived. Others tell of how our ancestors treated their dead, through their tombs and graves - which have often been excavated by archaeologists. Important individuals were typically interred in log-lined tombs which were burnt and then covered by a conical earth mound up to 20m high. The body was discovered by grave diggers who went to the cemetery to prepare a tomb and were then drawn to the corpse by a screaming passer-by. Our junket included stops at the ruins of a Roman coliseum, a sulfur mud bath, and some ancient Lycean rock tombs - all sites inaccessible by car or bus. It is apparent that this is a rich man's tomb, carefully carved out of solid rock. In 1923 Sir Flinders Petrie found another cache of fossils at Qua, wrapped in linen and carefully stored in rock tombs. 1.2 A monument to the memory of a dead person, erected over their burial place. 墓碑 Example sentencesExamples Her son Henry erected a tomb over her grave at Fontevraud. The second type of tomb was erected as a monument to honour the dead and to preserve their memory. The monumental tomb was an identical copy of the tomb of Lenin, which can still be seen in Moscow. The great pyramids were burial tombs for the pharaohs who were revered as gods on earth. The increasingly centralised organisation of the third millennium BC created a disciplined labour force, which was used to build vast royal monuments and elite tombs. The project's main aim was to study monumental tombs and funerary practices - a tough enough task on its own - and in the applications for funding we hadn't dared mention the hunt for a shipwrecked sailor. In Egypt pyramids were used as monumental tombs, whereas in Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and South America they were temple platforms. This tomb is situated 280 km from Mumbai and 190 km away from Nasik. This Greek-temple-like tomb was erected in 1901 by Dr John Springthorpe, in memory of his wife Annie, who had died in childbirth four years earlier. The tomb, situated in an elevated position at the end of a rocky gorge, is a well-preserved architectural and artistic masterpiece. The Romans erected a tomb in his honor inscribed with the image of a sphere within a cylinder in tribute to his great mathematical discoveries. Elizabethan monuments were not only funeral buildings like tombs, churches or charnel-houses. Abera is now a worthy successor to his great predecessor, whose premature death in 1973 is marked by a monumental tomb in Addis Ababa. He asks Wiglaf to build a monument, a tomb where King Beowulf's ashes will be buried, a high tower over the old one, so sailors will see it and speak of it forevermore. The magnificent tomb over the burial place, with its shrine-like features, is court art: court art carried from Westminster to Gloucester. The burial was not within the tomb itself, but along the external walls of the monument. Once freed of its contents, it became possible to examine the wall paintings in the only decorated room in the entire tomb, the burial chamber. Rich merchants erected extravagant public buildings and temples and tombs, living and dying in sumptuous style. Perhaps the most outstanding manifestation of such devotion is the Taj Mahal, erected by the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan as a tomb for his dead wife. Initially it was thought that the Maya pyramids did not serve as tombs, but recent explorations have identified burial sites within some of them. 1.3 Used in similes and metaphors to refer to a place or situation that is extremely cold, quiet, or dark, or that forms a confining enclosure. 一片死寂（或冰冷、阴森森） the house was as quiet as a tomb 屋子死气沉沉。 Example sentencesExamples She glared at the him with fire in her eyes, but she held her peace as both stared each other down while the room became quiet as a tomb. But the space was small enough to feel as if the walls were closing in, and it was dark as a tomb. When Lord Rawley's butler announced Amanda, the ballroom turned as quiet as a tomb. She's whipped the place into shape and everything's sparkly clean, not to mention the fact that the place is as quiet as a tomb, aside from the tapping of keyboards or phone ringing. The inside of the camp was quiet as a tomb and Dallas didn't feel very welcome in it. Inside was as dark as a tomb. The right wing hall stood empty and quiet as a tomb. His footsteps were ten times louder when there was no other sound; no servants working or glass trinkets falling made the palace quieter than a tomb. The parking garage sprawled in front of me, quiet as a tomb. The cell was as quiet as a tomb. The door to the office shut out the noise in the hall outside; inside, it was quiet as a tomb. The top of the house seems to go on forever, as dark and quiet as a tomb. For three days now you've been quiet at a tomb and almost sullen. Before the sirens, the confusion saw cutting metal freeing her from a tomb of steel. 1.4the tombliterary Death. none escape the tomb 万物皆难逃一死。 Origin Middle English: from Old French tombe, from late Latin tumba, from Greek tumbos.
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