graveside
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈɡreɪvˌsaɪd/
:
tumba
- The graveside service is about to begin.
Examples
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Wallace kneels at the graveside in unspeakable grief.
Fiction book (1995) -
The graveside service has just ended, and the mourners are beginning to disperse.
Fiction book (1995) -
My folks and I attended the graveside funeral.
Fiction book (1996) -
The funeral over, the saddened group left the graveside.
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Lou, the funeral was a simple graveside ceremony.
Fiction book (2001) -
Pastor Toby Wishnell delivered his address at the graveside.
Fiction book (2000) -
The fact they'd have to pay for the body's preparation, casket, limousine, and graveside service upset her.
Fiction book (1993) -
There would be a brief service at the graveside, that all-too-fertile-looking black rectangle gaping from a snow-clotted lawn.
Fiction book (1996) -
The family gathered at the graveside to honor their beloved grandmother during the ceremony.
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After the service, we placed flowers at my father's graveside as a final tribute.
Synonyms
421
2.8
A place where people are buried, often with headstones
414
1.0
A place in the ground where a dead body is buried
122
1.8
A place where people are buried after they die
21
3.9
A place where people are buried, like a cemetery
13
3.8
The place in the ground where someone is buried
11
3.7
A place where people bury their dead
1
6.1
An area of land with graves for dead people, like a cemetery
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word graveside comes from grave 'a tomb' and side 'next to', so the graveside is the place beside a grave where people often stand for a ceremony.