tombstone

[toom-stohn]

noun

1. a stone marker, usually inscribed, on a tomb or grave.

Tombstone

¹

/ ˈtuːmˌstəʊn /

noun

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

tombstone

²

/ ˈtuːmˌstəʊn /

noun

1. another word for gravestone

Word History and Origins

Origin of tombstone¹

First recorded in 1555–65; tomb + stone

Example Sentences

Soviet officials based in New York traded jokes about the words that would appear on their tombstones.

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Mr. O’Brien refused concessions and tweeted an image of a tombstone “Yellow: 1924-2023.”

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But his tombstone was defaced on Thursday morning, local authorities said.

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"With just 22 million rupees, we've restored 92 buildings, eight or nine clocks, and some 1,300 tombstone plaques."

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Dock, whose birth year engraved on his tombstone is a guess, was a child when he arrived in the U.S.

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Related Words

• gravestone 
• marker 
• memorial 
• monument