Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tomb \Tomb\, n. [OE. tombe, toumbe, F. tombe, LL. tumba, fr. Gr.
   ? a tomb, grave; perhaps akin to L. tumulus a mound. Cf.
   {Tumulus}.]
   1. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is
      deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.

            As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.  --Shak.

   2. A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth,
      with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead. ``In
      tomb of marble stones.'' --Chaucer.

   3. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the
      name and memory of the dead.

            Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb.    --Shak.

   {Tomb bat} (Zo["o]l.), any one of species of Old World bats
      of the genus {Taphozous} which inhabit tombs, especially
      the Egyptian species ({T. perforatus}).