Definitions for catacomb

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catacomb cat·a·comb

Spelling: [kat-uh-kohm]

IPA: /ˈkæt əˌkoʊm/

Catacomb is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in catacomb (aabccmot).

Definitions for catacomb

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.

Origin of catacomb

before 900; Middle English catacombe, Old English catacumbe Late Latin catacumbās (accusative plural); of disputed orig.; perhaps Greek *katakýmbās, equivalent to kata- c

Examples for catacomb

The only marvel is, how he comes to be hiding himself in the catacomb.

Let us leave the catacomb, if you wish, and you can repeat your story to me up above.

He entered the catacomb June 7, 1831, and obtained eleven mummies.

What does it matter, so long as the whole mountain is a catacomb of kings?

With still greater difficulty he reached the entrance to the catacomb.

He was then beheaded, with several of his adherents, and buried in the catacomb.

The plan of the catacomb of S. Priscilla is a good illustration of this.

They occur in a gallery of the catacomb, not far from the Appian Way.

And is there not a column in the catacomb to which, if a madman is bound, he recovers his reason?

A striking example of this occurs in the catacomb of Callixtus.