[ noun ] a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) <noun.artifact> he put flowers on his mother's grave
Tomb \Tomb\,, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tombed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tombing}.] To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
I tombed my brother that I might be blessed. --Chapman.
Tomb \Tomb\, n. [OE. tombe, toumbe, F. tombe, LL. tumba, fr. Gr. ? a tomb, grave; perhaps akin to L. tumulus a mound. Cf. {Tumulus}.] 1. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. --Shak.
2. A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead. ``In tomb of marble stones.'' --Chaucer.
3. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. --Shak.
{Tomb bat} (Zo["o]l.), any one of species of Old World bats of the genus {Taphozous} which inhabit tombs, especially the Egyptian species ({Taphozous perforatus}).
He placed a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier and decorated veterans and members of the Resistance with Legion of Honor medals.
More than 2,500 police officers and National Guard soldiers lined streets near the slain civil-rights leader's tomb Saturday during a demonstration by four white supremacists led by Richard Barrett of Mississippi.
The tomb was discovered at Sipan in 1987.
We stroll through the monks' graveyard, neat, unadorned tomb stones laid out like a soldier's cemetery. Before going, a look at the visitor's book.
But behind a carved 15th century walnut door, pilgrims with covered heads speak in hushed tones beside Kussam's gilded tomb.
Actress Whoopi Goldberg, who recently bought a painting of Tiffany perched atop a tomb, says, "I love my blue dog.
More than a million mourners gathered at the tomb of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini to mark the first anniversary of his death.
When the guardian families of Jing Ling village, whose job it was to protect the tomb, cut some trees that the emperor thought important to the beauty and serenity of the site, he had the villagers executed.
Ibarruri's body was to lie in state until Thursday, when party leaders have scheduled a commemorative rally in downtown Madrid. Burial is scheduled later that day at a municipal cemetery beside the tomb of Spanish Socialist Party founder Pablo Iglesias.
His basic structure, of a curved and tiered colonnade broken by a central stair, is handsome, and the stage space is varied - for Juliet's bedroom; for the Capulet tomb - to provide a more intimate, rectangular dance area.
Tutankhamen reigned from 1333 to 1323 B.C. His tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings at Luxor in 1922.
He recognized notations on the boxes as those of Carter, providing the first clue that they might be from Tutankhamun's tomb.
The first hole revealed a highly decorated mastaba, or tomb, of a dynastic official.
That's what I want to institute here." Grave robbers came within 3 feet of making off with the contents of the most valuable ancient tomb ever found in the Western Hemisphere before Peruvian archaeologists with the help of police beat them to it.
Soviets, some of them within sight of Lenin's tomb in Moscow, voted in open elections three weeks ago.
The discovery of the ancient army of terracotta warriors guarding Qin's tomb was one of the great archaeological finds of modern times.
"Long live, long live," shouted people at Victory Square when Bush's black armored limousine pulled up in front of the marble tomb, which was flanked by a military band and honor guard.
Police said they were investigating the wounding of a 21-year-old man who was shot as he left Santiago's main cemetery after visiting the tomb of Salvador Allende, the man Pinochet toppled in the coup.
"The British Museum bought the tomb from an Italian dealer in 1871 because the Louvre had one and we were jealous," said Dr. Susan Walker, an antiquities expert.
The sunlight entered above the tomb's entrance through a gap measuring about 8 inches tall and 3 feet wide, Ray said.
His first big commission, the Oscar Wilde tomb in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, was covered and put under arrest by the gendarmerie upon its unveiling in 1914.
Stonecutters squat in the field alongside the outer wall of the Jing Ling tomb, chipping away at large granite blocks.
Later police fired tear gas and charged about 1,000 young people gathered at the tomb when some of the youths threw sticks at police, witnesses reported.
Leaving the burial chamber, visitors will pass through a roughly hewn tomb robbers' tunnel and into a series of Egyptian burial scenes featuring dioramas, 23 mummies and other artifacts.
Cinder blocks had been removed from another tomb and the head and neck of a man who died 20 years ago had been pulled out.
The military also said vandals damaged the tomb of President Corazon Aquino's husband.
Between the Freud Museum and the tomb of Karl Marx, there is to be found the greatest concentration of men of letters, psychoanalysts and great fortunes of London.
In the past, the mausoleum was a major attraction in Sofia, much like Lenin's tomb in Moscow.
Mandela visited the tomb of Agostinho Neto, the guerrilla leader who led Angola to independence and became its first president until his death in 1979.
A 5,000-year-old Irish tomb has yielded new evidence that it provided a dramatic light show at sunrise of the winter solstice, making it the oldest known structure with an astronomical function, a researcher says.