headstone
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈhɛdˌstoʊn/
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lápida
- He visited his father's grave and polished the headstone to make it shine.
- row of headstones
And I, I plan on putting a proper headstone on that sometime this year.
- And I, I plan on putting a proper headstone on that sometime this year.
- Well, good, because they've already carved your headstone.
- And if you've been to Arlington, looking across all those white headstones, and it's not a peaceful place for me to hang out.
- And so that we could dramatize the thing that he desperately wanted on its headstone and the thing that he would love to never be known for?
- 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.
- You take your dead person and you embalm their body, stick them in a coffin, put them in a grave, put a headstone up there.
- I know one car dealer that has that sells headstones at his car lot and has a car lot and, and and sells headstones on the same property.
Examples
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Many visitors left flowers in front of the headstone to honor the deceased.
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The headstone was engraved with her name and the years she lived.
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And what would you want on that headstone to make you feel you had a life that was worth living to you?
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Your headstone looks beautiful, by the way.
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And he still has to get a headstone for his dad.
Fiction book (1996) -
What would you like me to put on your headstone?
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I want us to be buried in a family plot with the same headstone.
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My parents had a grave for her, though, with a little headstone which they decorated with flowers on Memorial Day.
Fiction book (1998) -
It says "Bauer" on the headstone.
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Clean and white, its edges still undulled by rain, the headstone hunched before the dark mound.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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3.7
A stone placed at a grave with the person's name and dates
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2.6
A stone that marks a grave with the person's name
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Morphology
Etymology
Headstone comes from head 'head' and stone 'stone', meaning a stone placed at the 'head' of a grave, which is why a headstone marks who is buried there.