Usually means: Underground cemetery with tunnels, chambers.
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  1. catacomb: Merriam-Webster
  2. catacomb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catacomb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catacomb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catacomb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Catacomb, catacomb: Wordnik
  7. catacomb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. catacomb: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Catacomb, catacomb: Dictionary.com
  10. catacomb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Catacomb (video game), Catacomb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Catacomb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. catacomb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. catacomb: Rhymezone
  15. Catacomb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. catacomb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. Catacomb: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. catacomb: FreeDictionary.org
  19. catacomb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. catacomb: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. catacomb: Wiktionary
  22. catacomb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  23. catacomb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  24. catacomb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catacomb: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture

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  1. catacomb: Encyclopedia

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  1. catacomb: Cats
  2. catacomb: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology
  3. catacomb: A Word A Day

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  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. catacomb: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. catacomb: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catacomb: Glossary of Medieval Architecture

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Definitions from Wiktionary (catacomb)

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

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