grave
An excavation in the earth as a place of burialAn excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
» We visited our father's grave.
Wir besuchten das Grab unseres Vaters.
Мы посетили могилу нашего отца.
Ми відвідали батькову могилу.
Meaning
8 senses(countable, uncountable)An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
Grab
моги́лаmogíla
моги́лаmohýla, грібhrib
a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
(broadly, countable, uncountable)Any place of interment.
(countable, uncountable)Any place containing one or more corpses.
(broadly, uncountable)Death, destruction.
death of a person
(broadly, uncountable)Deceased people; the dead.
A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
(historical)A count, prefect, or person holding office.
(obsolete)A kilogram.
Examples
345 sentencesWe visited our father's grave.
Ми відвідали батькову могилу.
ruМы посетили могилу нашего отца.
deWir besuchten das Grab unseres Vaters.
I visited my father's grave.
Я відвідав могилу батька.
deIch habe das Grab meines Vaters besucht.
We're all in grave danger.
Ми всі в серйозній небезпеці.
ruМы все в серьёзной опасности.
deWir schweben alle in größter Gefahr.
Tom is digging his own grave.
Том сам собі риє могилу.
ruТом сам себе роет могилу.
deTom schaufelt sich sein eigenes Grab.
Tom dug a grave for his dog.
Том вирив могилу для свого собаки.
ruТом выкопал могилу для своего пса.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), frFrom Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.
From Middle French grave, a learned borrowing from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”). Compare Old French greve (“terrible, dreadful”). Doublet of grief.
Inherited from Middle English greyve. Doublet of graaf (borrowed from the Dutch cognate graaf (“count, earl”)) and graf (borrowed from the German cognate Graf (“count, earl”)).
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Forms
plural: gravesSynonyms
5 synonyms- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone):tomb
- a mark (‘) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation:grave accent
Word family
47 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable