grave(BURYING PLACE)

Examples

The tomb was honeycombed with passages and chambers.坟墓里像蜂巢一样布满了通道和墓室。
For centuries the tomb lay inviolate until, by chance, it was discovered by two miners.数百年来这座坟墓未遭破坏，后来偶然被两个矿工发现。
His tomb was covered with a yellow patina of lichen.他的墓地上长了一层薄薄的黄色地衣。
When they opened up the tomb they found treasure beyond their wildest dreams.他们挖开坟墓后发现了做梦也想象不到的珍宝。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Places where bodies are buried or cremated
burial ground
catacomb
cemetery
charnel house
churchyard
columbarium
crematorium
crematory
crypt
grave
graveside
graveyard
mausoleum
necropolis
ossuary
pyre
resting place
sepulchre
the pyramidsphrase
vault

Examples from literature

Archaeologists learned that some people kept cats just so they could kill them and bury them in tombs. 
Inside the tomb, scientists found a lot of gold. 
Many of the tombs are falling apart. 
The archaeologist studies treasures found in tombs. 
The message said that anyone who enters the king’s tomb will die. 
The pyramids in Egypt are really the tombs of ancient pharaohs. 
These tombs for the dead are more expensive than the houses of the living. 
They found a mummy in the tomb. 
Things like fine cloth, coffins, and tombs were also expensive. 
When one of them died, they built a special tomb – a pyramid. 

tomb | American Dictionary

tomb
noun[ C ]
us/tum/
a structure or underground room where someone, esp. an important person, is buried

Examples of tomb

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As such, we recognize objects 'as' trees or mountains or tombs.
It is possible that these pieces were used in ritual contexts outside the funerary context, then later placed in the tomb as an offering.
There is no evidence of dismemberment or drying outside the tombs, and it is believed that individuals were buried shortly after death.
Some, perhaps most, of those deposited in tombs, were complete, purposeful depositions, in the approximate positions and with the associations in which they were recovered.
Normally, rich tombs are considered of high rank, whereas pit graves are synonymous with common folk.
Many contributors link the use of shaft tombs to lineages or similar social groups.
These high-status groups are associated with eastern buildings (or temples in a few cases) that contain tombs with painted linear decoration and texts.
The shaft tomb discovered in the structure at the southern end of the plaza could strengthen this hypothesis.
Amphoroid kraters have been discovered together with large quantities of other imports in tombs and with local domestic materials in houses.
Indeed, the tomb complexes were originally built as burial places for the family members of high officials.
However, the numerous shafts and chambers of the tomb complexes were extensively used for later burials.
He then managed to recover the offerings from this tomb intact.
Each tomb would be opened on subsequent occasions to bury members of the ruler's family immediately after their death.
Some years ago a farmer working his field stumbled on the entrance of a shaft tomb.
The textual information is supplemented by evidence from paintings and reliefs in tombs as well as by archaeological finds.
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Collocations withtomb

tomb

These are words often used in combination with tomb.

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empty tomb
Identity of the dying and resurrected body is necessary to make sense of the emptytomb.
marble tomb
A marbletomb was begun in the courtyard.
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