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Date: 1100-1200
Language: Anglo-French
Origin: tumbe, from Late Latin tumba 'pile of earth under which a body is buried', from Greek tymbos

tomb

 noun
     
Related topics: Death
tomb [countable]
MX a stone structure above or below the ground where a dead person is buried:
the family tomb
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