Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Tomb (-s)
tomb (-s), n. [ME toumbe, sepulchral mound.]
- Grave; mausoleum; burial chamber.
- Gravestone; marble headstone; cold hard motionless memorial monument.
- Cemetery plot; [metonymy] graveyard; [metaphor] funeral ceremony; burial service; death procession.
- Sepulcher; crypt hewn out of stone; [fig.] the effects of death (see Matthew 27:57-60).
- Death; time when life ends; [fig.] winter; season when living things go dormant.
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