tomb

Definition von tomb im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: To bury; 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; {n} a repository or monument for the dead; To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb; A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher; A tomb is a large grave that is above ground and that usually has a sculpture or other decoration on it. a stone structure above or below the ground where a dead person is buried (tumbe, from tumba , from tymbos). Home or house for the dead. The term is applied loosely to all kinds of graves, funerary monuments, and memorials. Prehistoric tomb burial mounds, or barrows (artificial hills of earth and stones piled over the remains), were usually built around a hut containing personal effects for use in the afterlife. Burial mounds were a prominent feature of the Tumulus period in Japan (3rd-6th century); these often spectacular monuments consisted of earthen keyhole-shaped mounds surrounded by moats. Burial mounds, sometimes shaped like animals, were characteristic also of Indian cultures of eastern central North America 1000 BC-AD 700. With more advanced technology, brick and stone tombs appeared, often of imposing size. In Egypt tombs assumed great importance, especially in the form of pyramids. In medieval Christian thought, the tomb became a symbol of a heavenly home; this concept appeared in the Roman catacombs, whose walls display scenes of paradise. Since the Renaissance, the idea of the tomb as a home has died out in the West, except as a faint reminiscence in the mausoleums or vaults of modern cemeteries. See also beehive tomb, cenotaph, mastaba, stele. beehive tomb Qin tomb Ch'in tomb; {i} vault, grave; A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead; 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"; A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead
Tomb Raider: movie produced in 2001 starring Angelina Jolie
Tomb of Joseph: region in Shechem where legend claims that Joseph is buried
Tomb of Rachel: area in Bethlehem where legend claims that Rachel is buried
Tomb of the Unknowns: a national monument in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, US, where soldiers whose names were not known are buried from World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. It represents all the US people who died in those wars
tomb of Shimon Bar Yochai: site on Mount Meron where it is said that Shimon Bar Yochai is buried
tomb of the unknown soldier: symbolic tomb and commemorative tombstone in honor of those fallen soldiers whose actual burial place is unknown (in the U.S. state of Virginia at Arlington Cemetery)
A tomb: polyandrum
Absalom's tomb: monument near the Kidron River (Israel) which is traditionally considered to be the tomb of King David's son Absalom
Joseph's Tomb: region in Shechem where legend claims that Joseph is buried
Qin tomb: or Ch'in tomb Major Chinese archaeological site near the ancient capital city of Chang'an (now Xi'an), a 20-sq-mi (50-sq-km) funerary compound built by the first sovereign emperor, Qin Shihuangdi. In 1974 workers drilling a well discovered a subterranean chamber that contained an army of some 6,000 life-size terra-cotta soldiers with individually detailed faces, as well as horses, weapons, and other objects. Three nearby chambers containing more than 1,400 figures have also been unearthed; the tomb itself has not yet been excavated. Archaeologists anticipate that it will take many years to unearth the rest of the complex. The mausoleum is a UNESCO World Heritage site
Rachel's Tomb: location near Bethlehem that is believed to be the burial site of the Biblical Rachel
The tomb: casket
ancestral tomb: place where family members are buried
as silent as a tomb: deathly quiet, completely silent
beehive tomb: or tholos Large, beehive-shaped ceremonial tomb, sometimes built into the side of a hill. The Treasury of Atreus, a surviving tholos ( 1300-1250 BC) of the Mycenaean civilization, is a pointed dome built up of stepped blocks of conglomerate masonry cut and polished to give the impression of a true vault. A small side chamber contained the burials, while the main chamber was probably reserved for ritual use
chamber tomb: A Neolithic tomb consisting of a chamber built out of large upright stones with one or more capstones, buried in an earthen mound
chamber tomb: room where people are buried
court tomb: A Neolithic tomb found chiefly in the British Isles consisting of a chamber tomb adjoined by an open space marked off by large standing stones
from the womb to the tomb: from birth to death, in a lifetime
portal tomb: A Neolithic tomb consisting of two or more upright stones with a capstone, believed to have been buried in earth except for a central opening. Also called dolmen
tombs: Plural of tomb
violate a tomb: desecrate a burial place
wedge tomb: A Neolithic chamber tomb found chiefly in the British Isles that narrows from the entrance to the back
womb-to-tomb: from birth to death