Tom Bとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /tuːm/
• (米国発音) IPA: /tum/
• (Indic) IPA: /ʈumb/
• 韻: -uːm

名詞

tomb (plural tombs)

1. A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.

   Synonyms: burial chamber, sepulchre, vault

   Coordinate term: grave

2. (loosely) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.

   Synonym: grave

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

     As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.

3. One who keeps secrets.
   • 1912, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, published 1880, Book III, chapter 4:

     I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.

4. Death (literary)

   I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.

派生語

派生した語

• → Irish: tuama
• → Māori: toma

動詞

tomb (third-person singular simple present tombs, present participle tombing, simple past and past participle tombed)

1. (transitive) To bury.