grave

CEFRC1

/ɡɹeɪv/

noun · adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A place where a dead person is buried.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Very serious or worrying.

Examples

  • The boy dug a grave for his dead pet.

  • The boy dug a grave for his dog that had died.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ɡɹɑːv/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any place containing one or more corpses.

  2. Any place of interment.

  3. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

More examples

In context

  • The police have expressed grave concern about the missing child's safety.

  • a. 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Requiem" This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"

  • to grave an image

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Origin

noun

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.