Definition of tomb

"tomb" in the noun sense

1. grave, tomb

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"

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Quotations for tomb

Hang an epitaph on her tomb. [ William Shakespeare ]

Flirtation is the tomb of virtue. [ Mme. Roland ]

The house appointed for all living. [ Bible ]

My equal he will be again
Down in that cold oblivious gloom,
Where all the prostrate ranks of men
Crowd without fellowship, the tomb. [ J. Montgomery ]

Dark lattice! letting in eternal day. [ Young ]

Beyond the clouds and beyond the tomb. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. [ Landor ]

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave? [ Otway ]

The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh. [ Prior ]

Vice, that digs her own voluptuous tomb! [ Byron ]

While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. [ Young ]

The most magnificent and costly dome.
Is but an upper chamber to a tomb;
No spot on earth but has supplied a grave,
And human skulls the spacious ocean pave. [ Young ]

Earth, that's Nature's mother, is her tomb. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness. [ L. E. Landon ]

Light without life is a candle in a tomb;
Life without love is a garden without bloom. [ Proverb ]

Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. [ Gray ]

And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie;
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. [ Milton ]

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

There is for adversity but one refuge - the tomb. [ De Segoyer ]

The morn is up again, the dewy morn,
With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom,
Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn,
And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, -
And glowing into day. [ Byron ]

What is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb. [ Proverb ]

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds. [ Bernardin de St. Pierre ]

Who of us has not shed tears over the tomb of a loved one! [ Chateaubriand ]

A tomb now suffices for him for whom the world did not suffice. [ Apropos of Alexander the Great ]

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. [ Dryden ]

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph. [ Robert Emmet ]

It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. [ Washington Irving ]

All skulls seem to laugh. Perhaps it is at the epitaph engraved on their tomb. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. [ Washington Irving ]

Men shiver when thou art named; nature appalled shakes off her wonted firmness. [ Blair ]

All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom. [ Bryant ]

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a, devil may be respectable and wear good clothes. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. [ Madame Swetchine ]

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great. [ Landor ]

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. [ Burke ]

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. [ Landor ]

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

At the banquet of life, an unfortunate guest, I one day appeared; now, I am dying. Dying! and none there are to shed a tear over the tomb that awaits me! [ Gilbert ]

Literature, as a field for glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; as a means of support, it is the very chance of chances. [ H. Giles ]

Sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. [ Bryant ]

It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The prayers of a mother do not die when she dies, and the real heart and its sinless sympathies are never buried in the tomb; her love is purer and warmer now, for it comes from the sainted spirit shore. [ A. W. Mangum ]

At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; but, at twenty, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb in which he buries himself alive. [ E. de Girardin ]

There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. [ Washington Irving ]

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb; all these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage; they should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection; they should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

When the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place, - when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave, - in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them, - then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God. [ Dickens ]

tomb in Scrabble®

The word tomb is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters tomb:

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tomb in Words With Friends™

The word tomb is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters tomb:

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Words within the letters of tomb

2 letter words in tomb (1 word)

3 letter words in tomb (2 words)

4 letter words in tomb (1 word)

tomb + 1 blank (1 word)

tomb + 2 blanks (6 words)

Words containing the sequence tomb

Words with tomb in them (6 words)

Words that end with tomb (2 words)

Word Growth involving tomb

Shorter words in tomb

to tom

Longer words containing tomb

entomb entombed unentombed

entomb entombing

entomb entombment

entomb entombs

tombed entombed unentombed

tombing entombing

tombless

tomblike

tomboy tomboyish tomboyishly

tomboy tomboyish tomboyishness

tomboy tomboyism

tomboy tomboys

tombs entombs

tombs tombstone tombstones