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tombs, plural;
  1. A large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead

  2. An enclosure for a corpse cut in the earth or in rock

  3. A monument to the memory of a dead person, erected over their burial place

  4. 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
    • - the house was as quiet as a tomb
  5. Death
    • - none escape the tomb
  1. grave: a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"
  2. A tomb (from Greek "τύμβος" - tumbos) is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. ...
  3. The Tomb is a graphic novel written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir and illustrated by Christopher Mitten. It was published in 2004 by Oni Press.
  4. The Tomb is a 1986 film directed by Fred Olen Ray and featuring John Carradine and Cameron Mitchell.
  5. The Tomb is the first volume in a series of Repairman Jack books written by American author F. Paul Wilson. It is also the second volume in a series of six novels known as The Adversary Cycle. ...
  6. "The Tomb" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It is the first work of fiction that Lovecraft wrote as an adult.
  7. The fifth season of the military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 commenced airing on Showtime in the United States on June 29, 2001, concluded on Sky1 in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2002, and contained 22 episodes. ...
  8. (The Tombs) "The Tombs" is the colloquial name for the Manhattan Detention Complex, a jail in lower Manhattan at 125 White Street, as well as the popular name of a series of downtown jails. ...
  9. A small building (or "vault") 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. ...
  10. (Tombs) Cave of the Patriarchs • David's Tomb • Joseph's Tomb • Tomb of the Matriarchs • Rachel's Tomb The Enclosure of the Cave of the Patriarchs The Cave of the Patriarchs is a religious compound located in the ancient city of Hebron (which lies in the southwest part of the West Bank, in the ...
  11. (TOMBS) The erection of tombs and monuments. over the graves of Muslims is forbidden by the strict laws of Islam. For the teaching of the Traditions on the subject is unmistakable, as will he seen by the following Ahadis (Mishkat, book v. ch. vi. pt. 1):—
  12. To dream of seeing tombs, denotes sadness and disappointments in business. Dilapidated tombs omens death or desperate illness. To dream of seeing your own tomb, portends your individual sickness or disappointments. To read the inscription on tombs, foretells unpleasant duties.
  13. A chamber excavated from earth or rock specifically for receiving human remains.
  14. From the Latin tumba, meaning a burial stone, simple or monumental. Generally it is used in very broad terms to denote megalithic graves
  15. this is generally in the shape of an upright coffin, but the essential is that it is a small, enclosing space with an entrance that is covered by a veil.
  16. A place for the deposit of the dead. (See College, Newspaper Office, Philadelphia Club, Legation, Committee, etc.)
  17. A burial place that is used for receiving human remains.
  18. The Greeks called the swollen ground or mound which marked gravesites a tumulus. Tombs take many forms and the word is now synonymous with grave.
  19. a grave or other place, such as a mausoleum, used to bury a dead person.
  20. a stone structure above or below the ground where a dead person is buried
  21. A grave, burial vault or a monument.
  22. Digestive / elimination system
  23. Raider III opens millions of years ago, when a meteor survived the plunge through the Earth's atmosphere, impacting the then-warm climate of Antarctica.