Definition of gravestone
: a burial monument
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Examples of gravestone in a Sentence
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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His family members said his daily routine included a visit to her gravestone since her death in 2015.
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Kneeling, the men shoveled the remaining bits of dirt into the holes with their hands and placed a gravestone at the top.
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In this May 16, 2017 photo, gravestones from the 1800s stand in a cemetery at Malone's Church in Madison, Md., a stop on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway.
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Michael scans the gravestones on the hillside before getting out, making sure he’s in the right place.
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That Pyle was recovering from foot surgery at the time put him closer to the ground than normal, and a ray of sunlight happened to illuminate four faint letters on a worn gravestone nearby: USCT.
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Shopping Cart icon Buy Photo Hundreds of U.S. Navy officers and sailors have lain for decades under the anonymity of inscrutable gravestones at Mount Moriah, a 19th century cemetery whose 380 acres span Southwest Philadelphia and Yeadon Borough.
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Shopping Cart icon Buy Photo Hundreds of U.S. Navy officers and sailors have lain for decades under the anonymity of inscrutable gravestones at Mount Moriah, a 19th century cemetery whose 380 acres span Southwest Philadelphia and Yeadon Borough.
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The Oxford gravestone shared by J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife Edith Tolkien is etched with the names Beren and Lúthien—two characters from a fantastical love story that the Lord of the Rings author wrote and rewrote throughout his storied career.
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First Known Use of gravestone
14th century
GRAVESTONE Defined for English Language Learners
gravestone
playDefinition 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
gravestone
playDefinition of gravestone for Students
: a monument on a grave
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