Meaning

1 senses
  1. A stone slab set at the head of a grave.

    a stone that is used to mark a grave

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Rodrigo ran, jumping over the gravestones as he went.

  2. Mary volunteered to take etchings of old gravestones in her free time.

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  3. They put a gravestone at the head of the grave overlooking the harbour.

    deSie haben einen Grabstein über dem Grab errichtet, der über den Hafen blickt. — Esperantostern

  4. They erected a gravestone at the head of the grave overlooking the harbour.

    deSie haben einen Grabstein über dem Grab errichtet, der über den Hafen blickt. — Esperantostern

  5. I can't believe you would defile a gravestone!

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Origin

From Middle English graveston, gravestone, gravestan, equivalent to grave + stone.

From Middle English graveston, gravestone, gravestan, equivalent to grave + stone.

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Forms

plural: gravestones
Singulargravestone
Pluralgravestones

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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