Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A stone placed over a grave as a marker; a tombstone.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A stone laid over a grave, or erected near it (commonly at its head), in memory of the dead.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a stone that is used to mark a grave
Examples
“In the north especially the grave is very often surmounted by a huge marble tortoise bearing the inscribed tablet, or what we call the gravestone, on its back.”
“[1] The gravestone is briefly described in Letter 413.”
“While digitization of a gravestone is certainly “lossy,” in that the stones are three dimensional, have color, and are different in differing conditions of light, their depiction here is clearly a form of preservation, at least of information, as originals are lost.”
“As if, you know, “who you are” is carved in gravestone and is absolutely immutable.”
“His gravestone is located in front of a quintet of ghostly musicians who eternally perform in the attraction's memorable graveyard scene.”
“Traditionally, the gravestone is erected about a week after burial.”
“On his gravestone are the Latin words, "Aude sapere," which translates as "dare to taste, to experience.”
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“On his gravestone is the epitaph composed by himself: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)
“You argue, and reason, but I know this, my friend, that something was left out of this man when he was made, and it is that thing that we must find, or he will die among us a ruined soul, and his gravestone will be the monument of our shame.”
“View the inscription on that gravestone, which is now almost overgrown with thorns.”
Stories for the Young Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI.
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘gravestone’.
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No Dearth of Deadly Designations
catafalque, cenotaph, necropolis, sepulcher, sarcophagus, mausoleum, reliquary, ossuary, necrosis, cadaver, cadaverous, pyre and 103 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (G)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
gable, gaia, gala, galaxy, gallows, gambol, garden, garland, garnet, gauntlet, gazebo, gazelle and 105 more...
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Skip The Light Fontastic
Fonts whose names are wacky, powerful, intriguing, whimsical, exotic and so on.
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Rocketeer's Words
defenestrate, shutterbug, antique, periscope, dogma, peculiar, eccentric, banana, apple, pear, cherry, photograph and 189 more...
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Tunie: No Man's Land
By Eric Bogle.
Well, how'd you do, Private Willie McBride,
D'you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
Been walking...again, vain, dying, killing, shame, glory, sorrow, suffering, end, war, the cause, why and 47 more...
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fantasy
masquerade, spiral, faerie, gnome, twinkle, aurora, haunt, gargoyle, passion, starshine, gargoyle, crimson and 61 more...
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