gravestone
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2.6
- noun
- /ˈɡreɪvˌstoʊn/
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lápida
- The gravestone at her grave was beautifully engraved with her name and dates.
- names on the gravestones
But I found one gravestone, and all it said was I told you I was sick.
- But I found one gravestone, and all it said was I told you I was sick.
- Ben, I'm going to get to work right away on putting this QR code on my gravestone.
- One of the things that Dan has done is at the Halloween like event, he basically bought loads of gravestones.
- An epithet is something people write it on your on that gravestone, that death marker.
- And also also he need to know where her fucking gravestone was.
- It's Ava, the, you know, the gravestone and right, the headstone and, and every year when we commemorate that death, you get to say that prayer again.
Examples
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Beyond the woods lay a gently rising sward, a cemetery with gravestones ancient and recent.
Fiction book (1997) -
But then their laughter turned to tears as they stood before a gravestone.
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But I found one gravestone, and all it said was I told you I was sick.
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I'm gonna buy a gravestone.
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I'm gonna buy my wife a new gravestone.
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Close to the hut, there was a wooden gravestone with flowers all around it.
Fiction book (1996) -
We had a funeral and a coffin and a gravestone.
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The baby had wandered over to a nearby gravestone with fresh flowers placed before it.
Fiction book (1990) -
Quinn walked past him and toward Teddy's gravestone, his body growing heavier with each step.
Fiction book (1995) -
There are neat rows of white gravestones on a flowing grassy hill.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
52
3.7
A stone placed at a grave with the person's name and dates
31
3.5
A stone at the head of a grave with the person's name and dates
3
9.9
A tall stone slab with writing or pictures used as a monument
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9.9
A tall stone with writing that honors a person or event from long ago
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gravestone comes from two simple words: grave ('a place where someone is buried') and stone ('a rock'). So a gravestone literally means the stone placed to mark a grave, which is why it usually shows the name and dates of the person buried there.