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Added 9 October 2026

tomb

/tuːm/ noun

In Latin: tumba, conditorium, bustum Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about tomb at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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

Origin

From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Displaced native Old English þrūh. The verb is from Middle English tomben.

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