Definition of Gravestones

1. Noun. (plural of gravestone) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gravestones

1. gravestone [n] - See also: gravestone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravestones

graver
graveries
graverobber
graverobbers
graverobbing
gravers
gravery
graves' disease
graveside
gravesides
gravesite
gravesites
gravest
gravestead
gravestone
gravestones (current term)
graveward
graveyard
graveyard poetry
graveyard shift
graveyard shifts
graveyard spiral
graveyard watch
graveyards
gravic
gravid
gravid uterus
gravida
gravida I
gravida II

Literary usage of Gravestones

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1896)
"IN SEARCH OF gravestones OLD AND CURIOUS. By WT Vincent. Cloth, demy 8vo. ... These gravestones belong to the past, and are hastening to decay. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... period are numerous gravestones, capitals, moldings, etc. A predominating motif in such carvings is the complex interlacing lines like wattle- work ..."

3. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand (1849)
"gravestones. THE custom of laying flat stones in our churches and churchyards over the graves of better sort of persons, on which are inscribed epitaphs ..."

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