tomb
/tuːm/noun
1- a large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead坟墓, 冢; 葬身之地。
1.1
- an enclosure for a corpse cut in the earth or in rock土棺; 石棺。
1.2
- a monument to the memory of a dead person, erected over their burial place墓碑。
1.3
- used in similes and metaphors to refer to a place or situation that is extremely cold, quiet, or dark, or that forms a confining enclosure一片死寂(或冰冷、阴森森):
the house was as quiet as a tomb.
屋子死气沉沉。
1.4
- mass noun
the tomb
poetic/literary death〈诗/文〉死亡: none escape the tomb.
万物皆难逃一死。
词源
Middle English: from Old French tombe, from late Latin tumba, from Greek tumbos.