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
In June 2000, Gein’s 150-pound gravestone vanished from Plainfield Cemetery.
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Aya Al-Hakim, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Chilling Chambers is little more than half-hearted fan service that name-checks every maze in Scary Farm history on a crypt or gravestone.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
In the vision, Wednesday sees the bird Xavier painted on a gravestone with an inscription of Enid’s name on it.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Outliving Michael includes a photo of a rubbing, done in black crayon on white paper, of Church’s gravestone in Naples, Florida.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Aya Al-Hakim, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Chilling Chambers is little more than half-hearted fan service that name-checks every maze in Scary Farm history on a crypt or gravestone.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
In the vision, Wednesday sees the bird Xavier painted on a gravestone with an inscription of Enid’s name on it.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Outliving Michael includes a photo of a rubbing, done in black crayon on white paper, of Church’s gravestone in Naples, Florida.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gravestone
Noun
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What’s more Halloween-y than a cookie recipe on a tombstone?—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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The next scene features teenagers stealing the tombstone from Ed's grave, before the episode concludes on a quiet note.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The relief was most likely an adornment on the outside of a royal monument.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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That monument, erected in 1892, finally found a new home earlier this year in the Lost in New Haven Museum, NBC Connecticut reported.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gravestone. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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