grave
see also: Grave
Pronunciation Noun
Grave
Proper noun
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see also: Grave
Pronunciation Noun
grave (plural graves)
- An excavation in the earth as a place of burial
, John 11:17: - He had lain in the grave four days.
- 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert (author), Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter X:
- 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.
- Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
- (by extension) Death, destruction.
- French: tombe
- German: Grab
- Italian: fossa, tomba
- Portuguese: sepultura, cova, túmulo
- Russian: моги́ла
- Spanish: tumba, sepultura,
grave (graves, present participle graving; past graved, past participle graved)
- (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
Book of Prayer, Psalms 7:16: - He hath graven and digged up a pit.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
- Book of Exodus 28:9:
- Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
- a. 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Requiem"
- This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"
- Book of Exodus 28:9:
- (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
- to grave an image
: - With gold men may the hearte grave.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
: - O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
- (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, Scene ii:
- […] And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, Scene ii:
- (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
- French: graver
- Italian: intagliare
- Russian: выреза́ть
- Spanish: grabar
grave (comparative graver, superlative gravest)
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful. [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: sober, solemn, sombre, sedate, serious, staid
- Low in pitch, tone etc. [from 17th c.]
- Antonyms: acute
- 1854, John Weeks Moore, Encyclopedia of Music:
- The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable. [from 19th c.]
- Synonyms: serious, momentous, important
- (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative. [16th-18th c.]
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition II, section 3, member 7:
- An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave, and wise.
- weightsome, sweer
- (unsorted by sense) sage, demure, thoughtful, weighty
- French: grave
- German: gewichtig, gemessen, gravitätisch
- Italian: solenne, grave
- Russian: серьёзный
- Spanish: serio, seco, solemne, reservado, sombrío
- German: respektgebietend, furchtgebietend
- Italian: opprimente
- Russian: тяжёлый
- Spanish: grave, apremiante
grave (plural graves)
- A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`).
grave (plural graves)
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Proper noun
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