Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A region of southwest France in the Garonne River valley. The area is known for its fine table wines.
  • Robert Ranke,British writer and critic whose works include poetic delineations of his tour of service in World War I, love poems, and the critical work The White Goddess (1948).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The refuse parts of animal fat gathered from the melting-pots and made up into cakes for dogs' meat. In Great Britain such cakes are called cracklings, and the material is often called scraps.
  • noun An important class of Bordeaux wines of the Gironde district, including such red wines as the Château Margaux, Chăteau Laffitte, and Château La Tour, and, among the white wines, the Sauternes.
  • noun A general commercial name for white Bordeaux wines of second or third quality of the Gironde district on the left bank of the Garonne. These wines are usually somewhat sweet, and admit of being kept a long time.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural The sediment of melted tallow. Same as greaves

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun a region close to Bordeaux in south-western France.
  • proper noun the dry white wine produced in this region.
  • proper noun An English surname derived from Grave.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Graves.

Examples

  • Virginia Tech defensive tackle John Graves is not one to create headlines, so he paused and thought long and hard when asked Tuesday if he thought Coach Frank Beamer's complaints about illegal chop blocks were legitimate following last year's 28-23 loss to Georgia Tech. If you remember, Graves was one of the topics of discussion in the aftermath of that defeat.

    Another look at last year's chop block controversy Mark Giannotto 2010

  • ELLIOTT: Garret Graves is state director of coastal activities.

    La. Looks To New Plan To Restore Fragile Coast 2010

  • A Veterans Day speaker in Graves 'Missouri district had addressed the crowd, including a National Guard unit preparing to deploy, while wearing an unearned Navy Cross pin.

    Media Information Sheet 2010

  • ELLIOTT: Garret Graves is state director of coastal activities.

    La. Looks To New Plan To Restore Fragile Coast 2010

  • Yet in Graves 'memoirs, this grotesque act (imagine the response if rescue workers at a mining accident did such a thing) seems perfectly understandable and, yes, even funny.

    Archive 2007-07-01 David 2007

  • I have a feeling that Mike Graves is nodding as he reads this, and I believe he knows what the missing piece is.

    Scripting News for 6/26/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • Yet in Graves 'memoirs, this grotesque act (imagine the response if rescue workers at a mining accident did such a thing) seems perfectly understandable and, yes, even funny.

    The cruelty of war David 2007

  • Five Bloody Graves is in many ways a straightforward and formulaic Western, a departure for Adamson, who usually directed horror flicks.

    Five Bloody Graves / Nurse Sherri (DVD Review) « Skid Roche 2007

  • Graves is so well known in the Eastern Region that a colleague of mine at work, a LibDem member, knew who he was and the positions he has held.

    Adrian Starts to Dig the LibDems' Grave 2006

  • The air-freshener canister that had been suckered to the windshield lay quietly frothing lilac-scented foam in Graves's lap.

    Excerpt: God Lives In St. Petersburg by Tom Bissell 2005

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.