grave

grave meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of grave in a sentence

• The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug.1856, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter X:
• Shall a man grave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them on the water?'1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

All 40 example sentences with grave

Synonyms of grave

• plot
• lot
• austere
• solemn
• sombre
• frightful
• demure
• serious
• earnest
• grievous

Antonyms

• acute
• deep
• flat
• low-pitched

All synonyms and antonyms of grave

Forms of grave

Plural of grave: graves

Origin of grave

From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.

From Middle English graven, from Old English grafan (“to dig, dig up, grave, engrave, carve, chisel”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graven (“to dig”), German graben (“to dig”), Danish grave (“to dig”), Swedish gräva (“to dig”), Icelandic grafa (“to dig”).

From Middle French grave, a learned borrowing from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”). Compare Old French greve (“terrible, dreadful”). Doublet of grief.

Words formed from grave

• begrave
• beyond the grave
• cold in one's grave
• common grave
• cradle-to-grave
• dance on someone's grave
• dig one's grave with a fork
• dig one's grave with a fork and spoon
• dig one's own grave
• follow to the grave
• cradle to grave
• the cradle to the grave
• gravebound
• grave candle
• graveclothes
• gravedance
• gravedancer
• grave dancer
• grave dancing
• grave-dancy
• gravedigger
• grave digger
• gravedigging
• gravedom
• graveful
• grave good
• grave-good
• grave-goods
• grave goods
• gravekeeper
• grave lantern
• graveless
• gravelike
• grave marker
• gravemound
• grave-rob
• graverobber
• grave robber
• grave-robbing
• graverobbing
• graveside
• gravesite
• gravesome
• gravestead
• gravestone
• graveward
• gravewards
• grave wax
• graveyard
• have one foot in the grave
• ingrave
• mass grave
• one foot in the grave
• on foenem grave
• passage grave
• pauper's grave
• quiet as a grave
• quiet as the grave
• roll in one's grave
• roll over in one's grave

Related words

• burgrave
• landgrave
• margrave
• palsgrave
• waldgrave
• graving dock
• groove
• begrave
• engrave
• engraven

Phrases with grave

• war grave
• accent grave
• grave accent
• watery grave
• grave accents
• grave candles
• grave dancers
• grave diggers
• grave markers
• Grave Mixture
• grave robbers
• grave lanterns

Words that rhyme with grave

• save
• cave
• wave
• lave
• shave
• stave
• slave
• rave
• waive
• behave
• brave
• knave

Questions about grave

What does grave mean?

Grave means an excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

What is grave in Hindi?

Grave in Hindi is क़ब्र (qabra), समाधि (samādhi), गोर (gor). See Grave meaning in Hindi.

How do you use grave in a sentence?

The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug.

What part of speech is grave?

Grave can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce grave?

Grave is pronounced /ɡɹeɪv/.

What is the plural of grave?

The plural of grave is graves.