Meaning of Grave | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
   countable, uncountable
3. A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
4. A count, prefect, or person holding office.
   historical
5. A kilogram.
   obsolete
6. Any place of interment.
   broadly, countable, uncountable
7. See grave accent.
8. Any place containing one or more corpses.
   countable, uncountable
9. To clean and coat (the bottom of a wooden ship) with pitch.
10. Death, destruction.
    broadly, uncountable
11. In a slow and solemn manner. Used chiefly as a direction.
12. Deceased people; the dead.
    broadly, uncountable
13. to clean and apply a protective composition of tar to (the bottom of a ship).
14. A burial place or receptacle for human remains:catacomb, cinerarium, crypt, mausoleum, ossuary, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb, vault.
15. a plot of ground, or the hole dug in it, in which a dead person is buried. He laid flowers on the grave. graf قَبْر гроб túmulo hrob das Grab grav τάφοςtumba haud قبر hauta tombeקבר कब्र grob sír makam gröf tomba 墓 무덤 kapas kaps kubur grafgravgrób قبر campa mormânt могила hrob grob grob grav หลุมศพ mezar 墳墓 могила قبر huyệt; mộ 坟墓
16. a person whose job is digging graves. grafmaker, grafgrawer حَفّار القُبور гробар coveiro hrobník der Totengräber graver νεκροθάφτηςsepulturero, enterrador hauakaevaja قبر کن haudankaivaja fossoyeurקברן कब्र खोदने वाला grobar sírásó penggali kuburan grafari becchino 墓掘り人夫 무덤 파는 사람 duobkasys kapracis penggali kubur grafdelver, doodgravergravergrabarz قبركيندونكى coveiro gropar могильщик hrobár grobar grobar dödgrävare คนขุดหลุมศพ mezar kazıcı 掘墓人 гробокопач, гробар قبر کھودنے والا شخص، گورکن n...
17. a stone placed at a grave on which the dead person's name etc is written. grafsteen شاهِد، بَلاطَة ضَريح надгробен камък lápide náhrobní kámen der Grabstein gravsten ταφόπετραlápida hauakivi سنگ قبر hautakivi pierre tombaleמצבה समाधि पत्थर nadgrobna ploča sírkő batu nisan legsteinn pietra tombale, lapide 墓石 묘비 antkapinis akmuo kapakmens batu nisan grafsteengravsteinnagrobek خازه ( دقبر )، تيږه lápide piatră de mormânt надгробный камень náhrobný kameň nagrobni kamen nadgrobni spomenik gravsten...
    etc
18. a place where the dead are buried. kerkhof, begraafplaas مَقْبَرَه гробище cemitério hřbitov der Friedhof kirkegård; begravelsesplads νεκροταφείοcementerio surnuaed قبرستان hautausmaa cimetière בֵּית קְבָרוֹת कब्रिस्तान groblje temető kuburan, pemakaman kirkjugarður, grafreitur cimitero 墓地 묘지 kapinės kapsēta tanah perkuburan begraafplaatskirkegård, gravlundcmentarz اديره، هديره، مړيستونونه cemitério cimitir кладбище cintorín pokopališče groblje kyrkogård, begravningsplats สุสาน mezarlık 墓地 кл...
19. stemmig, ernstig بِجَديَّه، بِوَقار важно gravemente vážně, závažně ernst betydningsfuldt; vigtigt; alvorligt; dystert σοβαράgravemente, seriamente tõsiselt به شدت؛ بطور وخیم vakavasti gravement בְּאוֹפֶן חָמוּר गंभीरता से ozbiljno, teško komolyan, súlyosan dengan sedih alvarlega gravemente おもおもしく 엄숙히 rimtai nopietni; nospiedoši; drūmi dengan serius: ernstigalvorligpoważnie په جدى ډول gravemente grav, solemn серьёзно vážne resno ozbiljno allvarligt อย่างร้ายแรง ciddî bir şekilde 重大地 серйозно ...

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Examples

“He had lain in the grave four days.”

“Let mee not be ashamed, O Lord, for I haue called vpon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the graue.”

“They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.”

“[…]Meeting is pleasure, parting is a grief; / An inconstant lover is worse than a thief; / A thief can but rob you, and take all you have, / An inconstant lover will bring you to the grave![…]”

“[…]balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave.”

“"Hold your jaw, woman! I've had enough to vex me to-day without you startin' your tantrums. You're jealous of the grave. That's wot's the matter with you." "And her brats can insult me as they like - me that 'as cared for you these five years."”

“At the origin of the metric system the new unit of weight was called the grave, and was equivalent to the kilogram. The denomination grave would in some respects have been preferable to kilogram.”

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