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some white man's grave

some white man's grave is the alternative form of white man's grave.

Meaning of white man's grave

Noun

white man's grave (plural white men's graves)

  1. (archaic) Africa, or more specifically, western Africa or Sierra Leone.
    • [...]for, until some great revolution in nature or some great and gradual human exertion takes place, it must ever prove the "white man's grave," of which we have many lamentable proofs in the deaths of so many worthy and adventurous spirits who have fallen victims to research and humanity—Park...1847, William Whitaker Shreeve, Sierra Leone: the principal British Colony on the Western Coast of Africa, Simmonds, page 2

Forms of some white man's grave

pluralsome white men's graves

Questions about some white man's grave

What is some white man's grave the alternative form of?
Some white man's grave is the alternative form of white man's grave.

Words near some white man's grave in the dictionary

  1. some something or other
  2. some something or the other
  3. some such
  4. some time
  5. some time yet
  6. some white man's grave
  7. some white men's graves
  8. some-body
  9. some1
  10. somea
  11. somebodies

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