Definitions of Grave [ˈgrɑ veɪ]

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Definition of 'Grave'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) grave
an excavation made in the earth in which to bury a dead body.

2.  grave
any place of interment:
a watery grave.

3.  grave
the receptacle of what is dead, lost, or past:
the grave of unfulfilled ambitions.

4.  grave
death:
O grave, where is thy victory?

5. (adj.) grave
serious or solemn; sober:
grave thoughts of an uncertain future.

6.  grave
weighty; momentous:
grave responsibilities.

7.  grave
threatening a seriously bad outcome or involving serious issues; critical:
a grave situation.

8.  grave
consisting of, indicated by, or bearing a grave accent.

9. (v.t.) grave
to carve, sculpt, or engrave.

10.  grave
to impress deeply.

11. (v.t.) grave
to clean and apply a protective composition of tar to (the bottom of a ship).

12. (adj.) grave
slow; solemn.

13. (adv.) grave
slowly; solemnly.

Etymology: (1575–85; < It grave < L gravis heavy; see grave²)

Definition of 'Grave'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) grave
death of a person
"he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"

2. (noun) grave, tomb
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"

3. (adj) grave accent, grave
a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

4. (adj) grave, sedate, sober, solemn
dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
"a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"

5. (adj) dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening
causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
"a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"

6. (verb) grave, grievous, heavy, weighty
of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
"grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"

7. (verb) sculpt, sculpture, grave
shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
"She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"

8. (verb) scratch, engrave, grave, inscribe
carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
"engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"

Definition of 'Grave'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) grave
(of a situation) serious and worrying
a grave threat/concern; Rain forests are in grave danger.

2. grave
(of a person) looking serious or worried
a grave expression

3. (noun) grave
a place where sb is buried
an unmarked grave

Definition of 'Grave'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Grave
to dig. [Obs.] Chaucer

2. (noun) Grave
to carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave

3. (noun) Grave
to carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image

4. (noun) Grave
to impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly

5. (noun) Grave
to entomb; to bury

6. (noun) Grave
an excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction

7.  Grave
of great weight; heavy; ponderous

8.  Grave
of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc

9.  Grave
not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face

10.  Grave
not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key

11.  Grave
slow and solemn in movement

12. (verb) Grave
to clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose

13. (verb) Grave
to write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving

Translation of 'Grave'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a plot of ground, or the hole dug in it, in which a dead person is buried He laid flowers on the grave.
Afrikaans: graf	Arabic: قَبْر	Bulgarian: гроб
Brazilian: túmulo	Czech: hrob	German: das Grab
Danish: grav	Greek: τάφος	Spanish: tumba
Estonian: haud	Farsi: قبر	Finnish: hauta
French: tombe	Hebrew: קֶבֶר	Hindi: कब्र
Croatian: grob	Hungarian: sír	Indonesian: makam
Icelandic: gröf	Italian: tomba	Japanese: 墓
Korean: 무덤	Lithuanian: kapas	Latvian: kaps
Malay: kubur	Dutch: graf	Norwegian: grav
Polish: grób	Persian: قبر	Pashto: قبر
Portuguese: campa	Romanian: mormânt	Russian: могила
Slovak: hrob	Slovenian: grob	Serbian: grob
Swedish: grav	Thai: หลุมศพ	Turkish: mezar
Taiwanese: 墳墓	Ukrainian: могила	Urdu: قبر
Vietnamese: huyệt; mộ	Chinese: 坟墓
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