gravestone

as in tombstone
a shaped stone laid over or erected near a grave and usually bearing an inscription to identify and preserve the memory of the deceased we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones

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Recent Examples of gravestone Advertisement The bodies are buried with their heads to the west in three north-south rows, but nearly all of their gravestones have sunk below the surface. Travis Loller, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024 The end of the film sees a gravestone, as the infamous assassin is laid to rest next to his wife. Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025 Services at the gravestones of Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson are among many that take place before 9am. David Nikel, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025 Young people stand in between the gravestones, chattering, laughing and digging with shovels. Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gravestone
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Noun
  • With intention, Rashid Johnson visited the boxer’s grave in 2006 and photographed himself slumped upon its tombstone.
    Yinka Elujoba, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The tombstone has ten lines of inscriptions and identified the man laid to rest inside the tomb, according to the release.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • President Trump’s 2026 budget proposal recommends cutting more than $1.2 billion from the NPS, which manages 433 areas including national parks, monuments, battlefields, military parks, comprising 85 million acres of federal land in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and US territories.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Jiggly Caliente and Sam Nordquist are among this year’s all-trans class of inductees to the National LGBTQ+ Wall of Honor, a monument inside New York City’s Stonewall Inn.
    James Factora, Them., 7 May 2025

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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gravestone. Accessed 12 May. 2025.

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