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 Flowers are seen laid out at a gravestone. Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025 Another intense image is of a cemetery with gravestones front and center and large houses looming in the background. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2025 Splashes of elegance in gravestone carving appear as the mirthless old Puritans die, people get richer, and London goes royal. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 July 2025 According to reports from the BBC, Sky News and ITV, the boy, whose name has not been made public, was at Rawtenstall Cemetery in Haslingden, Rossendale — located about 15 miles north of Manchester — at around 1 p.m. local time on Saturday, July 5, when the gravestone fell on him. Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 6 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for gravestone
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Noun
  • Thanks for giving me my tombstone engraving!
    Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Kevin Pazour, the museum’s executive director, carefully laid the heavy tombstone in the car to be transported to the cemetery, Meyers said.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Sochi Mayor Andrey Proshunin posted photos of the damage to Telegram, saying a military monument was also struck by debris.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2025
  • For two days, climbers and onlookers gathered around a 45-foot wall—an ephemeral monument suspended above water—where the edges between sport, spectacle, and cultural communion blurred.
    Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gravestone. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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