Synonyms:
gravestone, headstone, tombstone
Meaning: a stone that is used to mark a grave
Usage examples
His companion leant his hand on the old stooping tombstone.
Granite's cheap up here; just mention what you'd like on your tombstone and I'll see that it's done, if it takes my last cent."
There's a tombstone near that little old hawthorn, and there are two others side by side under the wall, still even legibly late seventeenth century.
"Let him run on," said Danglars, restraining the young man; "drunk as he is, he is not much out in what he says. Absence severs as well as death, and if the walls of a prison were between Edmond and Mercedes they would be as effectually separated as if he lay under a tombstone."
They saw her vanish through the wicket gate into the churchyard, and when they came nearer they saw the ghouls sitting on the tombstone as Eliza had seen them, and the King turned away his head, for he thought she was with them--she whose head had rested on his breast that very evening.
I had seated myself on a half-sunken tombstone, and was musing, as one is apt to do at this sober-thoughted hour, on past scenes and early friends--on those who were distant and those who were dead--and indulging in that kind of melancholy fancying which has in it something sweeter even than pleasure.