From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgravestonegrave‧stone /ˈɡreɪvstəʊn $ -stoʊn/ noun [countable] MXa stone above a grave showing details of the person buried there SYN tombstone
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gravestone• He was particularly delighted by the hearth - a seven-foot-by-three slate slab - probably a gravestone, he thought.• His discovery of the Hovis process is recorded on his gravestone.• Tombs and monuments were knocked to pieces, and ordinary gravestones shattered in rows.• Slowly, a drawing emerged of a yew tree, overlooking several gravestones.• Take the footpath between the hedge and the gravestones to go through a gate and along a grassy path.• People presently came flowing out of the door and spread between the gravestones.• The firm from whom the gravestone had been commissioned had telephoned about dimensions and other details.• The gravestones I can still read give only names and dates. 