Associations to the word «Catacomb»

Wiktionary

CATACOMB, noun. (often plural) An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a subterranean tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome.

Dictionary definition

CATACOMB, noun. An underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope