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Added 9 October 2026

grave

/ɡɹeɪv/ noun

In Latin: sepulcrum Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about grave at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
Any place of interment.
Any place containing one or more corpses.

verb

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.

adjective

Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
Low in pitch, tone etc.
Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.

noun

A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.

Origin

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.

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