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Tomb·stone

(to͞om′stōn′)

A city of southeast Arizona southeast of Tucson. After silver was discovered here in 1877, Tombstone became one of the richest and most lawless frontier mining towns.

tomb·stone

(to͞om′stōn′)

A gravestone.

tombstone

(ˈtuːmˌstəʊn)

another word for gravestone

Tombstone

(ˈtuːmˌstəʊn)

(Placename) a town in the US, in Arizona: scene of the gunfight at the OK Corral in 1881. Pop: 1547 (2003 est)

tomb•stone

(ˈtumˌstoʊn)

n.

a stone marker, usu. inscribed, on a tomb or grave.

[1555–65]

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Noun

tombstone - a stone that is used to mark a grave

gravestone, headstone

tomb, grave - a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"

monument, memorial - a structure erected to commemorate persons or events

stone - building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site"

tombstone

noun gravestone, memorial, monument, marker, headstone What were the words inscribed on his tombstone?

Translations

شاهِد القَبْر

náhrobní kámen

gravsten

GrabsteinLeichenstein

ταφόπλακα

lápida

hautakivi

pierre tombalefaire-part de clôture

sírkő

legsteinn

lapide

nagrobek

lápide

надгробие надгробная плита могильная плита

nagrobnik

mezar taşı

墓碑

tombstone

[ˈtuːmstəʊn] N → lápida f (sepulcral)

tombstone

[ˈtuːmstəʊn] n → pierre f tombale

tombstone

n → Grabstein m

tombstone

[ˈtuːmˌstəʊn] n → pietra tombale

tomb

(tuːm) noun

a hole or vault in the ground in which a dead body is put; a grave. He was buried in the family tomb.

ˈtombstone noun

an ornamental stone placed over a grave on which the dead person's name etc is engraved.

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I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister - Mrs.

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laughed Gabriel Grub, as he sat himself down on a flat tombstone which was a favourite resting-place of his, and drew forth his wicker bottle.

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It was reported that he had followed up his former misconduct by calling his father-in-law a liar, and that he had ordered a common tombstone from some cheap-jack at the East-end.

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It was not difficult to divine that they were of a class of itinerant showmen--exhibitors of the freaks of Punch--for, perched cross-legged upon a tombstone behind them, was a figure of that hero himself, his nose and chin as hooked and his face as beaming as usual.

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Apparently after a man has laid there a century or two, and has had a good many people buried on top of him, it is considered that his tombstone is not needed by him any longer.

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He has been too late several times, and when he sees he is too late he runs back to the Thrush's Nest for his paddle, of which Maimie had told him the true use, and he digs a grave for the child and erects a little tombstone and carves the poor thing's initials on it.

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In the cities, there is often no appearance of a grave at all; a tall, slender marble tombstone, elaborately lettred, gilded and painted, marks the burial place, and this is surmounted by a turban, so carved and shaped as to signify the dead man's rank in life.

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The gleams and flashes of the light showed me the servant's face staring up vacantly under the wall--the clerk risen to his feet on the tombstone, wringing his hands in despair--and the scanty population of the village, haggard men and terrified women, clustered beyond in the churchyard--all appearing and disappearing, in the red of the dreadful glare, in the black of the choking smoke.

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They was buried in the one grave and the School Board put up a tombstone to them as a reward for faithful service.

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I found them growing on a grave, which bore no tombstone, no other memorial of the dead man, save these ugly weeds, that have taken upon themselves to keep him in remembrance.

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I suppose you haven't thought about a tombstone yet?

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Don't you come fooling about, making me mad, chivying away all my better feelings with this silly tombstone nonsense of yours.