gravestone

A stone that is used to mark a grave, typically inscribed with the name and dates of the deceased.

• 🇫🇷Pierre placée sur une tombe pour marquer l'emplacement d'un défunt, portant généralement son nom, les dates de naissance et de décès, et parfois une inscription ou un symbole.

1. Grave marker B1 formal

   A stone slab or monument placed at the head of a grave to mark the burial site and often inscribed with the deceased's name and dates.

   • The old cemetery had many weathered gravestones.
   • They placed a simple granite gravestone on her grave.
   • The inscription on the gravestone was barely readable.

   🇫🇷Pierre tombale

   Synonymes: monumenttombstone

• gravestones plural form
• gravestones' possessive plural form
• gravestone's possessive singular form