tomb

Meanings

Noun

• 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. 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; a grave.
• One who keeps secrets.

Verb

• To bury.

Origin

• From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος, probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-.
• The verb is from Middle English tomben.