Usually means: Ancient Egyptian flat-roofed tomb.
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  1. mastaba: Merriam-Webster
  2. mastaba: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mastaba: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mastaba: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mastaba: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mastaba, mastaba: Wordnik
  7. mastaba: Wiktionary
  8. mastaba: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. mastaba (mastabah): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mastaba: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Mastaba, mastaba: Dictionary.com
  12. Mastaba: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. mastaba: Rhymezone
  14. mastaba: FreeDictionary.org
  15. mastaba: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. mastaba: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mastaba: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. mastaba: Encyclopedia

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  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mastaba)

noun:  A wide stone bench built into the wall of a house, shop etc. in the Middle East.
noun:  (architecture) A rectangular structure with a flat top and slightly sloping sides, built during Ancient Egyptian times above tombs that were situated on flat land. Mastabas were made of wood, mud bricks, stone, or a combination of these materials. Some are solid structures, while others can contain one or more rooms, sometimes decorated with paintings or inscriptions.

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