Definition of gravestone
: a burial monument
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we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones
Recent Examples of gravestone from the Web
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Now, a special monument to paratroopers is surrounded by a sea of gravestones marking their friends in all the armed services.
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Small stones peeping through the forest floor, two slabs of marble that were likely a gravestone before being broken, and a significant indentation in the ground facing west to east - the common burial practice.
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The damage comes less than a week after roughly 150 gravestones were vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis.
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Mulaney remembered Weinstein lamenting in 2015 that his TV career would become more of his legacy than his films would, and Project Runway would be written on his gravestone.
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Jackson’s marker was one of the largest in the cemetery, according to one of his living descendants, and unmistakable for anything but a gravestone.
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The faces of the dead resemble sugar skulls, traditionally placed on gravestones on that day.
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Court employees in Gaston County want to give a boy who was starved to death two years ago a proper send-off: a gravestone marker.
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In America, crows count as a Halloween decoration, like skeletons and mini-gravestones.
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First Known Use of gravestone
14th century
GRAVESTONE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of gravestone for English Language Learners
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: a stone that marks the place where a dead person is buried and that usually has the person's name and birth and death dates on it
GRAVESTONE Defined for Kids
Definition of gravestone for Students
: a monument on a grave
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