grave

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

graf

🪦

groeve

ernstig

beitelen

erg

aanzienlijk

tombe

bedenkelijk

voornaam

kuil

zwaar

zwaarwichtig

aanmerkelijk

plechtig

serieus

geruim

belangrijk

snijden

somber

stemmig

uitknippen

zorgbarend

zorgwekkend

Grave

graftombe

afhakken

afhouwen

afkappen

angstig

😨

bang

deftig

diep

donker

hakken

houwen

kappen

meerderjarig

mondig

🧑

omhakken

slijpen

snerpen

Tegenovergesteld aan

acute, deep, flat, low-pitched

Synoniemen

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

💀

Vertalingen

tombe

Grab

🪦

tumba

🪦

tombeau

grave

grave

tomba

sepultura

🪦

sepolcro

sepulcro

grave

🪦

τάφος

túmulo

grave

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪv/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: grave

Overgenomen van Oudengels: græf

Verwant aan Fries: grêf

Verwant aan Nederlands: graf

Verwant aan Nedersaksisch: Graf

Verwant aan Duits: Grab

Verwant aan Deens: -

Verwant aan Zweeds: -

Verwant aan Noors: grav

Verwant aan IJslands: gröf

Verwant aan Oudfrans: greve

Overgenomen van Middelengels: greyve

Verwant aan Nederlands: -

Verwant aan Duits: -

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.

Zinnen

I swear it on my mother's grave .