chamber tomb
English
Alternative forms
- chamber-tomb
Pronunciation
- enPR: chām′bər to͞om′[1][2]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯m.bə ˌtuːm/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯m.bəɹ ˌtum/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃæɪ̯m.bə ˌtʉːm/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃæɪ̯m.bɐ ˌtʉːm/, /ˈt͡ʃæɪ̯m.ba ˌtʉːm/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃem.bəɹ ˌtʉm/
- (India) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃeːm.bəʳ ˌʈuːm/
Noun
chamber tomb (plural chamber tombs)
- A communal burial place, cut into rock or hillslopes or constructed of masonry, whose chamber may or may not have an entry passage, usually covered by a mound.
- Synonyms: chambered tomb, burial chamber
- Hypernym: dolmen
- Hyponym: wedge tomb
Translations
communal burial place
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “chamber”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “tomb”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “chamber-tomb, n.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “[Supplement chamber-tomb, n.]”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “chamber tomb”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.