tomb

n. vault, grave

For the New York prison see The Tombs. A Tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. The term generally refers to any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. The word is used in a broad sense to encompass a number of such types of places of interment or, occasionally, burial, including:Burial vaults – stone or brick-lined underground spaces for interment (rather than burial), originally vaulted, often privately owned for specific family groups; usually beneath a religious building such as a church or in a churchyard or cemeteryChurch monuments – within a church (or tomb-style chests in a churchyard) may be places of interment, but this is unusual; they more commonly stand over the grave or burial vault rather than containing the actual body and are therefore not tombsCrypts – often, though not always, for interment; similar to burial vaults but usually for more general public intermentMartyrium - final resting place for the remains of a martyr or saint, such as San Pietro in MontorioMausolea (including ancient pyramids in some countries) – external free-standing structures, above ground, acting as both monument and place of interment, usually for individuals or family groupsMegalithic tombs (including Chamber tombs) – prehistoric places of interment, often for large communities, constructed of large stones and originally covered with an earthen moundSarcophagi – stone containers for bodies or coffins, often decorated and perhaps part of a monument; these may stand within religious buildings or greater tombs or mausoleaSepulchres – cavernous, rock-cut or stone-built (often underground) spaces for interment, such as the ; however, it is generally used to refer to similar Jewish or Christian structures.Architectural shrines – in Christianity, an architectural shrine above a saint's first place of burial, as opposed to a similar shrine on which stands a reliquary or feretory into which the saint's remains have been transferredOther forms of archaeological 'tombs' such as ship burials
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Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) grave
(hypernym) topographic point, place, spot
(hyponym) burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture
(part-meronym) gravestone, headstone, tombstone

(v. t.)
To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
  

(n.)
A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
  

(n.)
A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.
  

(n.)
A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.
  

To dream of seeing tombs, denotes sadness and disappointments in business. Dilapidated tombs omens death or desperate illness. To dream of seeing your own tomb, portends your individual sickness or disappointments. To read the inscription on tombs, foretells unpleasant duties.