tomb

noun/tuːm/

Frequency rank: #4,869 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a burial place, especially a stone structure where a dead person is laid to rest

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Example sentence

The archaeologists discovered an ancient tomb filled with gold and jewels.

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