Tomb
A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.
A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.
To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
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Tomb Quotations
Marriage is the tomb of love.
Giacomo Casanova
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great
One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.
Hillary Clinton
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emile M. Cioran
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Adolf Loos
On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
Josh McDowell
The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
Josh McDowell
Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.
Josh McDowell
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
Pericles
Tomb Translations
tomb in Dutch is groeve, graf
tomb in Finnish is hauta
tomb in French is tombeau, tombe
tomb in German is Grab, Grabmal
tomb in Italian is sepolcro
tomb in Latin is tumbus, sepulchrum
tomb in Norwegian is grav
tomb in Spanish is tumba
tomb in Swedish is grav, grift, gravvalv
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