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grave-stone

grave-stone is the alternative form of gravestone.

Meaning of gravestone

Noun

gravestone (plural gravestones)

  1. A stone slab set at the head of a grave.
    • The value of gravestone inscriptions for ancestral research has long been recognised. The discovery of a single gravestone may provide more information on the history of a family than could be gleaned from […]2005, William J. Roulston, Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster, 1600-1800, Ulster Historical Foundation, →ISBN, page 41
    Synonyms:
    headstone, tombstone

Forms of grave-stone

pluralgrave-stones

Questions about grave-stone

What is grave-stone the alternative form of?
Grave-stone is the alternative form of gravestone.

Words near grave-stone in the dictionary

  1. grave-rob
  2. grave-robbed
  3. grave-robbing
  4. grave-robbings
  5. grave-robs
  6. grave-stone
  7. gravebound
  8. gravecloth
  9. graveclothes
  10. gravecloths
  11. graved

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grave-stone (page history and authors); gravestone (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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