empty tomb

1. 1.

   a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered

   Synonymscenotaph

   Broadermemorial

Questions about empty tomb

What does empty tomb mean?

empty tomb means "a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered".

What is another word for empty tomb?

Close synonyms include cenotaph. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is empty tomb a common word?

empty tomb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.