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What is the noun for gravestone?

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gravedancer
  1. One who rejoices in the death or demise of another; one who dances on someone's grave.
  2. An investor who specializes in buying failing companies or distressed properties.
  3. One who literally dances on a grave.
grave
  1. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial
  2. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
  3. (by extension) Death, destruction.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “He placed a small metal airplane on Karl's casket as the boy was lowered into his grave.”
      “You're headed toward an early grave if you keep drinking the way you do now.”
      “They say the ole earl rose from the grave. That he's come back to haunt us.”
gravedigger
  1. A person employed to dig graves.
  2. A necrophore, or burying beetle.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “No final words are spoken, no ceremony is performed, and the only witness is the gravedigger.”
      “The unfortunate woman stood accused of the murder of the workhouse gravedigger and pleaded her innocence to the last.”
      “He also admits that the job of the gravedigger is a very sensitive position because, as he says himself, everyone is famous in their own right.”
graver
graving
  1. The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.
  2. (obsolete) An engraving.
gravesite
  1. The location of a grave
  2. A grave.
  3. Examples:
    1. “They believe that the pir's gravesite is full of blessings, and they attend at shrines to pray to God for favors.”
      “Gacy told police where they could find the body and police marked the gravesite in the garage, but they did not immediately begin digging.”
      “As we drove up to the grave of where Kevin was going to be buried I could see the paw bearers carrying the coffin to the gravesite.”
graverobbing
  1. The practice of illegally removing corpses from graves, originally to supply cadavers for medical study.
gravestead
  1. The place where a grave or graves are located; a grave; a burial ground; cemetery.
grave
  1. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. รจ is an e with a grave accent.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He placed a small metal airplane on Karl's casket as the boy was lowered into his grave.”
      “You're headed toward an early grave if you keep drinking the way you do now.”
      “They say the ole earl rose from the grave. That he's come back to haunt us.”
gravedom
  1. The place, home, abode, or world of the dead; death; grave.
gravestone
  1. A stone slab set at the head of a grave.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I looked over a wall into a graveyard and found myself looking at the gravestone of one of Britain's finest women writers.”
      “But the gravestone also provides shade for the survival of the chick of a pair of brown boobies that nest beside it each year.”
      “Spend a couple of hours in the Auld Kirk graveyard deciphering each gravestone, building up a picture of local people's lives.”
graveness
  1. The state of being grave; gravity
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A National Statistical Office report testifies to the graveness of the situation.”
      “He felt a tidal wave of truth crushing him below its cruel weight, as the graveness of what he had done hit him.”
      “As background factors, graveness, uncontrollableness and repeated history of grand attack are frequently seen.”
graveside
  1. The area immediately around a grave.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I walked a little closer to the graveside and blew a final kiss at my grandmama.”
      “We would follow up the long drive and wait for the crackers to be lit, lurking a short distance from the graveside.”
      “It does not pay to extol someone, catalogue their achievements at the graveside while they were ignored in life.”
gravedigging
  1. The digging of graves.
  2. Examples:
    1. “There's the gravedigging sexton beetle, life and death on the Skerries for a colony of tern chicks, the shenanigans of some frisky deer and some myth-busting about spiders.”
graves
gravedancers
  1. plural of gravedancer
gravediggers
  1. plural of gravedigger
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The mix-up occurred at the burial of a Middlesbrough woman whose interment had to be delayed for three hours while gravediggers set to work.”
      “He eventually found her, lying dead, so slept next to her, only for them both to be collected by the gravediggers.”
      “Hamlet asks the gravediggers who is to be buried, but he receives riddles instead of answers.”
gravesteads
  1. plural of gravestead
gravestones
  1. plural of gravestone
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The gravestones were barely seen through a thick layer of murky fog that encompassed everything it could get its claws around.”
      “There was a weeping willow shading two lonely gravestones, alienated from all the others.”
      “We made drawings of gravestones of dead monks, lunched in local pub and had a swell trip.”
gravesites
  1. plural of gravesite
gravesides
  1. plural of graveside
gravings
  1. plural of graving
gravers
  1. plural of graver
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