noun
grave
GRAYV/ɡreɪv/
A place where a dead body is buried.
Flowers lie beside the grave's plain headstone.
Etymology
Old English græf named a burial place as well as a ditch, trench, or cave, connecting the sense with a hollow in the earth. Its deeper ancestry is uncertain.
In context
THE WITCHES WERE CONSIDERED UNCLEAN, FORBIDDEN CHRISTIAN BURIAL, AND DUMPED IN A MASS GRAVE.
More examples
- They visited the grave each spring.
- Several old graves stood beneath the trees.
- The family marked the grave with a small stone.
Forms
grave · graves
Similar words
- tomb
- A burial structure or chamber.
- burial place
- The general term for where remains are laid to rest.