grave.
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
Meaning & usage
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
Any place of interment.
Any place containing one or more corpses.
Death, destruction.
Deceased people; the dead.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.
To dig.
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
to grave an image
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
To entomb; to bury.
To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English graven, from Old English grafan (“to dig, dig up, grave, engrave, carve, chisel”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graven (“to dig”), German graben (“to dig”), Danish grave (“to dig”), Swedish gräva (“to dig”), Icelandic grafa (“to dig”).
Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness.
Low in pitch, tone etc.
Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
Influential, important; authoritative.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us Proto-Italic *gʷraus Latin gravis Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Medieval Latin gravō Medieval Latin gravader. Old French grave Middle French gravebor. English grave From Middle French grave, a learned borrowing from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”). Compare Old French greve (“terrible, dreadful”). Doublet of grief.
A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us Proto-Italic *gʷraus Latin gravis Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Medieval Latin gravō Medieval Latin gravader. Old French grave Middle French gravebor. English grave From Middle French grave, a learned borrowing from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”). Compare Old French greve (“terrible, dreadful”). Doublet of grief.
A count, prefect, or person holding office.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English greyve. Doublet of graaf (borrowed from the Dutch cognate graaf (“count, earl”)) and graf (borrowed from the German cognate Graf (“count, earl”)).
To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves were formerly used for this purpose.
A kilogram.
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