Tomb vs Memorial - What's the difference?
tomb | memorial |
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.
* Shakespeare
A structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event
A service of remembrance or commemoration
(legal) a statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc .
Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
* Alexander Pope
Contained in the memory.
Mnemonic; assisting the memory.
* Skeat
As nouns the difference between tomb and memorial
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 memorial is a structure, such as a monument, intended to celebrate the memory of a person or event.As a verb tomb
is to bury.As an adjective memorial is
serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.tomb
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Noun
(en noun)- As one dead in the bottom of a tomb .
memorial
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(wikipedia memorial)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- a memorial building
- There high in air, memorial of my name, / Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.
- a memorial possession
- This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.