grave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grāv
ipa: /ɡɹeɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
ipa: /ɡɹɑːv/
rhymes: -ɑːv
Forms: form: graves
Etymology: From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.
Senses: examples: text: He had lain in the grave four days.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 11:17:
text: 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.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 31:17:
text: 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.
ref: 1856, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter X:
synonyms: plot#Noun
lot#Noun
coordinate_terms: burial chamber
sepulchre
vault
qualifier: strictly
glosses: An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
glosses: Any place of interment.
qualifier: very loosely
glosses: Any place containing one or more corpses.
examples: text: […]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![…]
ref: a. 1769, unknown, The Cuckoo, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2019, lines 9–12:
text: […]balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave.
ref: 1973, “Breathe”, in Roger Waters (lyrics), David Gilmour and Richard Wright (music), The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd:
glosses: Death, destruction.
examples: text: "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."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Deceased people; the dead.
Synonyms: grievous
Derived terms: begrave
beyond the grave
cold in one's grave
common grave
cradle-to-grave
dance on someone's grave
dig one's grave with a fork
dig one's grave with a fork and spoon
dig one's own grave
follow to the grave
cradle to grave
the cradle to the grave
gravebound
grave candle
graveclothes
gravedance
grave dancer
gravedancer
grave dancing
grave-dancy
grave digger
gravedigger
gravedigging
gravedom
graveful
grave good
grave-good
grave-goods
grave goods
gravekeeper
grave lantern
graveless
gravelike
grave marker
gravemound
grave-rob
graverobber
grave robber
graverobbing
grave-robbing
graveside
gravesite
gravesome
gravestead
gravestone
graveward
gravewards
grave wax
graveyard
have one foot in the grave
ingrave
mass grave
passage grave
pauper's grave
quiet as a grave
roll in one's grave
roll over in one's grave
silent as a grave
silent as the grave
spin in one's grave
take someone to the grave
take something to one's grave
take something to the grave
take to the grave
turn in one's grave
turn over in one's grave
ungrave
war grave
watery grave
white man's grave
Related terms: groove