Plural of grave
regular plural
The plural of grave is graves.
Forms of grave
| Singular | grave /ɡɹeɪv/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | graves /ɡɹeɪvz/ |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Graves in a sentence
- The magic spell raised the dead from their graves!From the entry raise
- How do the dog-hearted get through the day when they're not ransacking graves?2014, Marina Carr, The Cordelia Dream. From the entry dog-hearted
- Dancing on graves just makes the gravedancers look silly and annoys the crows.2010 November 26, D.F. Oliveria, “Nevada 34, Boise State 31 In Overtime”, in The Spokesman Review. From the entry gravedancer
- Maybe you think it would be ghoully to begin our love-life in what may become our graves.1963, Philip Wylie, chapter 15, in Triumph, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 267–268. From the entry ghoully
- This cemetery had a gravekeeper who kept the graves from getting muddled together with weeds and brambles.1942, Emily Carr, “Cemetery”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry gravekeeper
Meaning of grave
- noun An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- noun Any place of interment.
- noun Any place containing one or more corpses.
Questions about the plural of grave
- What is the plural of grave?
- The plural of grave is graves.
- Is grave countable?
- Grave is a countable and uncountable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: grave (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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