tombstone
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈtoʊmˌstoʊn/
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- And it was inscribed, in accordance with her wishes, on her tombstone in the park at Verrieres.
- words on a tombstone
What do you want your tombstone to read about you?
- What do you want your tombstone to read about you?
- He has on his tombstone the words call me trim tab.
- This is one of the earliest tombstones known from from Britain.
- My motto in life on my tombstone is everything is material.
- Hey, I can't walk past his tombstone every day.
- I already have a tombstone carved.
- And someone wrote, tombstones don't just say RIP.
- But right now, it's time to find out what you want on your tombstone.
- I don't want any other monument but that on my tombstone.
- Yeah, that book's fascinating to see what it says on Wernher von Braun's tombstone.
- And as I walked through the cemetery, I saw these crosses and I saw some tombstones.
- And the the story, the story like broke my little heart when when I still think about him saluting that tomb, that tombstone all the time, like.
Examples
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I know that Mel Blanc's tombstone says, "That's all, folks!"
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He has on his tombstone the words call me trim tab.
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What do you want your tombstone to read about you?
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But if I did have a tombstone, husband, father, teacher would be the three.
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My father took me with him to pick out a tombstone for her.
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OK, so I want to have on my tombstone one simple phrase.
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How should we inscribe your tombstone?
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This is one of the earliest tombstones known from from Britain.
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Most buy very elaborate tombstones.
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I went to visit my friend Ben's tombstone on a wet, chilly day.
Synonyms
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3.5
A stone at the head of 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
Tombstone is made of two simple parts: tomb meaning 'grave' and stone meaning 'stone'. It originally meant the stone placed at a grave with the dead person's name, which is why we still use it for a grave marker today.