Meaning

2 senses
  1. A gravestone, a grave marker: a monument traditionally made of stone placed at the head of a grave.

    a stone that is used to mark a grave

  2. The cornerstone or principal stone of a building.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. He's praying beside his wife's headstone.

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  2. The epitaph engraved on the headstone was a meaningful, succinct poem.

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  3. The headstones in the cemetery were moved, but the bodies were not.

    deDie Grabsteine im Friedhof hat man versetzt, die Verstorbenen jedoch nicht.

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  4. You can't pick her headstone.

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Origin

From head + stone.

From head + stone.

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Forms

plural: headstones
Singularheadstone
Pluralheadstones

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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