tomb(n = noun.artifact) grave - 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"
is a kind of place, spot, topographic point
has parts: gravestone, headstone, tombstone
has particulars: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture, mastaba, mastabah
1. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher. [1913 Webster]
"As one dead in the bottom of a tomb." [1913 Webster]
2. A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
3. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead. [1913 Webster]
"Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb." [1913 Webster]
To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb. [1913 Webster]
"I tombed my brother that I might be blessed." [1913 Webster]
tomb, n.
1 a large esp. underground vault for the burial of the dead.
2 an enclosure cut in the earth or in rock to receive a dead body.
3 a sepulchral monument.
4 (prec. by the) the state of death.
Etymology:
ME t(o)umbe f. AF tumbe, OF tombe f. LL tumba f. Gk tumbos
N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.