gravesite

Or grave-site

[greyv-sahyt]

noun

1. the site of a grave or graves; a place of burial.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gravesite¹

First recorded in 1950–55; grave ¹ ( def. ) + site ( def. )

Example Sentences

I accompanied Romero in Washington in 2010, when he knelt at RFK’s gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery and wept.

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During one stretch in 2012 and 2013, the driver took the bodies to a mass gravesite near the town of Al-Tall, on a hilltop overlooking Damascus.

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“It struck me that I hadn’t been to see his gravesite in many a year, though I couldn’t tell you why; I just never got around to it, I suppose. And that got me feeling all—not teary eyed, exactly, but in that quiet sort of thinking mood where you sit and wonder why things are the way they are. What’s the word?”

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Nor had she ever stopped to wonder if anyone was in the habit of visiting the gravesite, and perhaps leaving flowers.

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Namibia's authorities have warned people not to hold parties at cemeteries after a social gathering at a gravesite in the capital, Windhoek, sparked outrage last weekend.

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