grave

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) Any place of interment.
3. (countable, uncountable) Any place containing one or more corpses.
4. (broadly, uncountable) Death, destruction.
5. (broadly, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To dig.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To entomb; to bury.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

Adj

1. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
2. Low in pitch, tone etc.
3. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
4. (dated) Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
5. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.

Verb

To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves were formerly used for this purpose.

Concepts

tombe

grave

tombeau

sérieux

fosse

graver

tailler

considérable

sépulture

solennel

buriner

dangereux

majeur

sobre

accent grave

caveau

charnier

posé

risqué

le Saint Sépulcre

cimetière

ciseler

émoussé

important

lieu de repos

lourd

malin

périlleux

sculpter

sculpture

sépulcre

sévère

Opposé de

acute, deep, flat, low-pitched

Synonymes

tomb

serious

solemn

sepulchre

cemetery

weighty

mausoleum

severe

important

sedate

earnest

grievous

mound

heavy

critical

‼️

vault

graveyard

sepulcher

burial

stern

burial place

carve

sober

dangerous

pit

staid

majestic

major

dignified

somber

bad

👎

alarming

terrible

whittle

authoritative

bitter

life-threatening

chisel

momentous

significant

big

inscribe

deep

scratch

sculpture

cut

crypt

sad

☹️

dreadful

death

💀

Traductions

tumba

🪦

Grab

🪦

graf

🪦

grave

tomba

sepolcro

sepultura

🪦

sepulcro

τάφος

grave

🪦

túmulo

sepultura

grave

groeve

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: grave

Hérité de ancien anglais: græf

Appartenant à frison occidental: grêf

Appartenant à néerlandais: graf

Appartenant à bas-allemand: Graf

Appartenant à allemand: Grab

Appartenant à danois: -

Appartenant à suédois: -

Appartenant à norvégien: grav

Appartenant à islandais: gröf

Appartenant à ancien français: greve

Hérité de moyen anglais: greyve

Appartenant à néerlandais: -

Appartenant à allemand: -

In summary

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.

Phrases

I swear it on my mother's grave .