What does grave mean?
Definitions for grave
ˈgrɑ veɪgrave
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word grave.
Princeton's WordNet
grave(noun)
death of a person
"he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"
grave, tomb(noun)
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"
grave accent, grave(adj)
a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
grave, sedate, sober, solemn(adj)
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"
dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening(adj)
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"
grave, grievous, heavy, weighty(verb)
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"
sculpt, sculpture, grave(verb)
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"
scratch, engrave, grave, inscribe(verb)
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"
Webster Dictionary
Grave(verb)
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
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Grave
of great weight; heavy; ponderous
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Grave
of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Grave
not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Grave
not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Grave
slow and solemn in movement
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Grave(noun)
to dig. [Obs.] Chaucer
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Grave(noun)
to carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Grave(noun)
to carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Grave(noun)
to impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Grave(noun)
to entomb; to bury
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Grave(verb)
to write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Grave(noun)
an excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction
Etymology: [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. grf, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.]
Freebase
Grave
A grave is a location where a dead body is buried. Graves are usually located in special areas set aside for the purpose of burial, such as graveyards or cemeteries. Certain details of a grave, such as the state of the body found within it and any objects found with the body, may provide information for archaeologists about how the body may have lived before its death, including the time period in which it lived and the culture that it had been a part of. In some religions, it is believed that the body must be burned for the soul to survive; in others, the complete decomposition
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Grave
grāv, v.t. to carve or cut on a hard substance: to engrave.—v.i. to engrave:—pa.p. graved or grāv′en.—n. a pit graved or dug out, esp. one in which to bury the dead: any place of burial: the abode of the dead: (fig.) death: destruction.—n.pl. Grave′-clothes, the clothes in which the dead are buried.—n. Grave′-dig′ger, one who digs graves.—adj. Grave′less (Shak.), without a grave, unburied.—ns. Grave′-mak′er (Shak.), a grave-digger; Grave′-stone, a stone laid over, or placed at the head of, a grave as a memorial; Grave′yard, a yard or enclosure used as a burial-ground.—With one foot in the grave, on the very borders of death. [A.S. grafan; Dut. graven, Ger. graben; Gr. graphein, to scratch, L. scribĕre, to write.]
Grave
grāv, v.t. to smear with graves or greaves, a mixture of tallow, rosin, &c. boiled together.—ns.pl. Graves, Greaves, tallow-drippings. [See Greaves.]
Grave
grāv, adj. of importance: serious: not gay or showy: sober: solemn; weighty: (mus.) not acute: low.—n. the grave accent, or its sign (`).—adv. Grave′ly.—n. Grave′ness. [Fr.,—L. gravis.]
Grave
grāv, n. a count, prefect, a person holding office, as in landgrave, margrave, burgrave, &c. [Dut. graaf, Ger. graf.]
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Rank popularity for the word 'grave' in Nouns Frequency: #1944
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of grave in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of grave in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of grave in a Sentence
The Bible tells us that jealousy is as cruel as the grave. Unbelievable. Rest In Peace, Pop.
This law typifies femicide as a grave crime and identifies it as a specific crime against women. It's a way to talk about this problem, make it visible by giving it a name and increasing sanctions for this crime, it has taken us a long time to say that the killing of a woman is a different phenomenon. Men are killed in the street, women are killed in the home. Men are killed with guns, women with knives and hands.
As I laid the rebel flag down across Vernon's grave, I told my grandson what it represents -- our hope that racism and hatred would die, that it would be killed at the root of our hearts, minds and souls.
Super Tuesday, one of two things is going to happen. Right now, Donald Trump has enormous momentum. He's won three out of four states, if he continues with that momentum and powers through and wins everywhere on Super Tuesday, he could easily be unstoppable. And I think that would be a grave mistake both for the Republican Party and for the country.
The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
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Translations for grave
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- адамраAbkhaz
- grafAfrikaans
- ضريح, قبرArabic
- qəbir, məzarAzerbaijani
- ҡәберBashkir
- магі́лаBelarusian
- гробBulgarian
- কবরBengali
- seriós, greu, sepulcreCatalan, Valencian
- hrob, závažný, vážnýCzech
- grav, begravelseDanish
- Grab, dumpf, gemessen, furchtgebietend, dunkel, gravitätisch, gewichtig, respektgebietendGerman
- βαρύς, τάφος, βαρείαGreek
- tomboEsperanto
- apremiante, bajo, grabar, esculpir, sombrío, grave, fosa, tumba, tallar, solemne, serio, reservado, seco, sepulturaSpanish
- haudEstonian
- گور, قبرPersian
- vakava, hauta, matalaFinnish
- grave, tombe, tailler, graver, sculpterFrench
- grêfWestern Frisian
- uaighIrish
- uaighScottish Gaelic
- oaieManx
- קֶבֶרHebrew
- क़ब्र, गंभीरHindi
- sírHungarian
- գերեզմանArmenian
- kuburIndonesian
- gröfIcelandic
- tomba, fossaItalian
- 墓Japanese
- საფლავი, სამარეGeorgian
- мазар, қабырKazakh
- 무덤Korean
- merzel, tirb, mezar, ziyaret, gorr, qebir, قهبر, گۆڕKurdish
- көр, мүрдө, мүрзө, бейитKyrgyz
- sepulchrumLatin
- GrafLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ຂຸມເຮ່ວ, ຊຸມຜີ, ຂຸມຝັງສົບLao
- kapasLithuanian
- kapsLatvian
- гробMacedonian
- булшMongolian
- pusara, kuburMalay
- qabarMaltese
- grafDutch
- gravNorwegian Nynorsk
- gravNorwegian
- ингӕнOssetian, Ossetic
- poważny, grób, mogiłaPolish
- sepulturaPortuguese
- mormântRomanian
- выреза́ть, гравирова́ть, серьёзный, моги́ла, гра́вис, [[производи́ть]] [[впечатле́ние]], [[произвести́]] [[впечатле́ние]], тяжёлый, ни́зкий, гробRussian
- гро̏б, grȍbSerbo-Croatian
- hrobSlovak
- gròbSlovene
- varrAlbanian
- gravSwedish
- kaburiSwahili
- கல்லறைTamil
- సమాధిTelugu
- қабр, гӯрTajik
- หลุมฝังศพ, หลุมศพThai
- gör, mazarTurkmen
- mezarTurkish
- каберTatar
- моги́лаUkrainian
- قبرUrdu
- qabr, goʻr, quburUzbek
- mả, mộ, dấu huyềnVietnamese
- גרובYiddish
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