Cemetery vs Tomb - What's the difference?
cemetery | tomb |
A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.
A small building (or "vault") 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.
A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
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As nouns the difference between cemetery and tomb
is that cemetery is a place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park while tomb is a small building (or "vault") 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.As a verb tomb is
to bury.cemetery
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(wikipedia cemetery)Alternative forms
* (history) * (archaic)Noun
(cemeteries)Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* catacomb * churchyard * charnel house * columbarium * crypt * graveyard * mausoleum * morgue * mortuary * necropolis * ossuary * reliquary * sepulchre * tombstone * tumulustomb
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Noun
(en noun)- As one dead in the bottom of a tomb .