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from the cradle to the grave

from the cradle to the grave prepositional phrase: spanning an entire lifetime; from birth to death.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Spanning an entire lifetime; from birth to death.

from the cradle to the grave meaning in Bengali and Arabic

from the cradle to the grave in Bengali

পুরো জীবনকালব্যাপী, জন্ম থেকে মৃত্যু পর্যন্ত

from the cradle to the grave in Arabic

Translations
مِنَ ٱلْمَهْدِ إِلَىٰ ٱللَّحْدِ mina l-mahdi ʔilā l-laḥdi

Forms of from the cradle to the grave

alternative formfrom cradle to grave
alternative formfrom the cradle to the deathbed

Questions about from the cradle to the grave

What does from the cradle to the grave mean?
From the cradle to the grave means spanning an entire lifetime; from birth to death.
What is from the cradle to the grave in Bengali?
From the cradle to the grave in Bengali is পুরো জীবনকালব্যাপী, জন্ম থেকে মৃত্যু পর্যন্ত. See From the cradle to the grave meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is from the cradle to the grave?
From the cradle to the grave is a prepositional phrase.

Words near from the cradle to the grave in the dictionary

  1. from soup to nuts
  2. from start to finish
  3. from stem to stern
  4. from that time on
  5. from the bottom of one's heart
  6. from the cradle to the grave
  7. from the dead
  8. from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious
  9. from the East German judge
  10. from the face of the earth
  11. from the first

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Adapted from Wiktionary: from the cradle to the grave (page history and authors); from the cradle to the grave (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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