Synonyms for tomb
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1. tomb

   Synonyms:
   grave, vault, catacomb, sepulcher, crypt, house of death, narrow house, long home

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1. grave, tombnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   grave, grave accent

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1. tombnoun

   Synonyms:
   sepulchre, vault, crypt, catacomb, grave, house of death, narrow house, long home

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1. tombnoun

   Synonyms:
   sepulchre, crypt, vault, ossuary, mausoleum (a magnificent tomb)

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1. List of paraphrases for "tomb":

   grave, falls, shrine, gravesite, cemetery, graveyard, fall, gravestone, mausoleum

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1. Suzanne Bott:

   People have compared it to King Tut's tomb.

2. Another British archaeologist:

   My feeling is this is a tomb, originally made for a queen, which was adapted for the burial of a queen who had become a pharaoh, the pharaoh (dressed as a mummy) in question looks to be Nefertiti and the person burying Nefertiti appears to be Tutankhamun.

3. Simcha Jacobovici:

   The fact is that this tomb has more evidence going for it now than probably any other archaeological artifact on the planet. The names are not common and some of the versions of the names are unique e.g., 'Yose' (which corresponds to one of the brothers of Jesus).

4. Alfonsina Russo:

   This area is highly symbolic. This surely cannot be Romulus' tomb, but it is a place of memory, a cenotaph.

5. Uri Berger:

   The engraved shapes depict a straight line going to the center of an arc, about 15 such engravings were documented on the ceiling of the dolmen, spread out in a kind of arc along the ceiling. SCIENTISTS ISSUE DIRE WARNING ABOUT TOMB OF JESUS.