Tomb vs Headstone - What's the difference?
tomb | headstone |
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 tomb and headstone
is that 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 while headstone is a gravestone, a grave marker: a monument traditionally made of stone placed at the head of a grave.As a verb tomb
is to bury.tomb
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Noun
(en noun)- As one dead in the bottom of a tomb .