Sarcophagus vs. Tomb
Difference Between Sarcophagus and Tomb
Sarcophagusnoun
A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
Tombnoun
A grave or other place of burial.
Sarcophagusnoun
A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
Tombnoun
A vault or chamber for burial of the dead.
Sarcophagusnoun
(informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
Tombnoun
A monument commemorating the dead.
Sarcophagusnoun
(historical) A kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.
Tombnoun
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.
Sarcophagusnoun
(historical) An 18th-century form of wine cooler.
Tombnoun
A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
Sarcophagusnoun
a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)
Tombnoun
One who keeps secrets.
Tombverb
(transitive) To bury.
Tombnoun
a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone);
he put flowers on his mother's grave
