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Definition: Gravestone |
GravestoneNoun1. A stone that is used to mark a grave. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gravestone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references) |
Synonyms: GravestoneSynonyms: headstone (n), tombstone (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gravestone |
| English words defined with "gravestone": Through stone. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | But I can buy for you a gravestone, to lay behind your head (Buy For Me the Rain; performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Gravestone of first man killed in Revolutionary War, Westminster, Vt. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gravestone shop. Bristol, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gravestone in Bethlehem graveyard. Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Gravestone" by Daniel Netz Commentary: "Simply a gravestone." | "Grave images 2" by Louise Ingram Commentary: "Interesting lichen pattern on a gravestone." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Gravestone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.33% of the time. "Gravestone" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.33% | 59 | 44,010 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "gravestone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gur varri (headstone, tombstone). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | надгробна плоча (ledger), надгробен камък (headstone, tomb, tombstone). (various references) | |
Czech | náhrobní kámen (headstone), náhrobek (tombstone). (various references) | |
Danish | plade til gravsten (tablet for gravestone). (various references) | |
Dutch | grafplaat (tablet for gravestone). (various references) | |
Farsi | لوحه قبر, سنگ قبر (Cairn, Headstone, Tombstone), سنگ گور. (various references) | |
Finnish | hautakivi (headstone, tombstone). (various references) | |
French | pierre tombale (grave stone). (various references) | |
German | grabstein (headstone, tombstone). (various references) | |
Greek | επιτύμβια πλάκα (tablet for gravestone), επιτύμβιοσ λίθοσ (tomb stone), ταφόπετρα (grave stone, tomb stone). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצבה (column, pillar, stone, tombstone), קבר (grave, sepulcher, sepulchre, tomb, tombstone). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sírkő (ledger, tomb, tombstone). (various references) | |
Italian | pietra sepolcrale, lapide (stone, tablet, tombstone). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 墓碑 (tombstone). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぼひょう (grave marker, grave-marker), ぼひ (tombstone). (various references) | |
Manx | leac oaie, \ leac oaye (tombstone), clagh oaie (ledger stone). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | avestonegray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pedra tumular (headstone, monument, tombstone), lpide. (various references) | |
Romanian | lespede de mormânt, lespede (flag, flag stone, slab, stone, tombstone). (various references) | |
Russian | могильная плита. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nadgrobni spomenik (headstone, tomb, tombstone). (various references) | |
Spanish | lapida sepulcral, lápida sepulcral (tombstone), lápida (headstone, stone, tablet, tombstone). (various references) | |
Swedish | gravsten (headstone, tombstone). (various references) | |
Turkish | mezar taşı (headstone, tombstone). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | могильна плита. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mộ chí (headstone, tombstone), bia (headstone, record). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gravestone": gravestones. (additional references) | |
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"Gravestone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Garmeston, gaviscon, gaviscone, Gravensteen, Ravenstone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gravestone" (pronounced grā"vstō'n) |
| 4 | -s t ō' n | Firestone, bloodstone, Bluestone, brownstone, capstone, cherrystone, cobblestone, cornerstone, curbstone, Eyestone, flagstone, Freestone, gallstone, gemstone, Gladstone, Goldstone, greenstone, grindstone, hailstone, headstone, keystone, limestone, lodestone, milestone, millstone, moonstone, rhinestone, sandstone, steppingstone, tombstone, touchstone, whetstone. |
| 3 | -t ō' n | acetone, baritone, halftone, monotone, overtone, undertone. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-n-o-r-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: renovates. | |
-2 letters: avengers, earstone, engraves, estragon, estrange, estrogen, grantees, greatens, negaters, negators, overages, overeats, overneat, reagents, renovate, resonate, sergeant, ventages, veterans. | |
-3 letters: arenose, argents, atoners, avenger, avenges, earnest, eastern, engrave, enrages, ergates, estrone, garnets, garotes, genevas, gerents, goatees, governs, grantee, gravest, greaten, greaves, nearest, negater, negates, negator, nervate, onagers, onstage, oranges, orgeats, overage. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-n-o-r-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: gravestones. | |
+2 letters: governorates, overgarments, seronegative. | |
+3 letters: galvanometers, overasserting, overmastering, photoengraves, reinvigorates, revegetations. | |
+4 letters: interrogatives, nonvegetarians, overbreathings, overestimating, overharvesting, photoengravers, seronegativity, tergiversation, verbigerations. | |
+5 letters: antiprogressive, governmentalism, governmentalist, overadvertising, overregulations, overspeculating, reinvestigation, tergiversations. | |
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