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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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


tombstone

2

/ ˈtuːmˌstəʊn /

noun

  1. another word for gravestone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tombstone1

First recorded in 1555–65; tomb + stone
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Example Sentences

Not only are tombstones barred, but so is anything that might obstruct the open vistas.

It will leave behind a sort of celestial tombstone called a planetary nebula, even though planets aren’t involved—unless the dark, dead husks of what were once Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune manage to stop themselves from being blown away.

Arnuby carries a picture of his brother’s tombstone and his death certificate, which lists strangulation as the cause.

“Sacks are a QB stat” could be on my tombstone, and yet I don’t listen to myself.

“A lot of the tombstones were toppled and broken,” said Grace, describing the former state of the cemetery.

Another sent back a flat-screen television with a bona fide tombstone within.

“What I would really like to put on my tombstone is that I was part of my time,” he says.

“The NTC pretends to govern, but it doesn't have any real power in the interior,” Tombstone tells him.

The problem gets occasional publicity when a rock star steps in and buys a tombstone for a blues great.

Or you could have a tombstone that reads “Here does not lie Ann Patchett.”

For hours the gray man would sit on a tombstone, while Black Sheep read epitaphs, and then with a sigh would stump home again.

Inscription copied, Nov. 21, 1833, from a tombstone to a fisherman in Bathford churchyard.

Only he had carved on the Girl's tombstone the last verse of the Song of the Girl, which stands at the head of this story.

His tombstone in the churchyard consists of an anvil and hammer, wrought in stone.

He supported her and himself against the tombstone, till her faint breathings informed him she revived.

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