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catacomb

[ kat-uh-kohm ]

noun

  1. Usually catacombs. an underground cemetery, especially one consisting of tunnels and rooms with recesses dug out for coffins and tombs.
  2. the Catacombs, the subterranean burial chambers of the early Christians in and near Rome, Italy.
  3. an underground passageway, especially one full of twists and turns.


catacomb

/ -藢ku藧m; 藞k忙t蓹藢k蓹蕣m /

noun

  1. usually plural an underground burial place, esp the galleries at Rome, consisting of tunnels with vaults or niches leading off them for tombs
  2. a series of interconnected underground tunnels or caves
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠补迟路补路肠耻尘路产补濒 [kat-, uh, -, kuhm, -b, uh, l], adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of catacomb1

First recorded before 900; Middle English catacombe, Old English catacumbe, from Late Latin 肠补迟补肠耻尘产腻蝉 (accusative plural); of disputed origin; perhaps from unattested Greek 办补迟补办媒尘产腻蝉, equivalent to kata- + 办媒尘产腻蝉, accusative plural of 办媒尘产脓 鈥渉ollow, cup鈥; cata-
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of catacomb1

Old English catacumbe, from Late Latin catacumbas (singular), name of the cemetery under the Basilica of St Sebastian, near Rome; origin unknown
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Details abound, as we enter the castle鈥檚 catacombs amid a sky-high skull wall and pass the likes of the Wolfman, the Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

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Stewart questioned: "Is there no one who can offer a more nuanced analysis of our newly formulated position in this conflict, preferably in some type of catacomb or echoey tunnel?"

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鈥淚f you wiggle through this hole, you鈥檒l fall through it and down into the catacombs.鈥

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At some point a local official in Paris suggested the catacombs under the city be emptied and sent to sugar factories.

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A mysterious, multi-leveled dungeon has appeared in a tiny village after the catacombs beneath it split.

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