grave
1 (grāv)
[Middle English, from Old English græf.]
noun
- An excavation for the interment of a corpse.
- A place of burial.
- Death or extinction: faced the grave with calm resignation.
grave
2 (grāv)
[French, from Old French, from Latin gravis.]
adjective: grav·er, grav·est.
- Requiring serious thought; momentous: a grave decision in a time of crisis.
- Fraught with danger or harm: a grave wound.
- Dignified and somber in conduct or character: a grave procession. See synonyms at serious
- Somber or dark in hue.
- Linguistics
- Written with or modified by the mark ( ` ), as the è in Sèvres.
- Of or referring to a phonetic feature that distinguishes sounds produced at the periphery of the vocal tract, as in labial and velar consonants and back vowels.
noun
Linguistics- A mark ( ` ) indicating a pronounced e for the sake of meter in the usually nonsyllabic ending -ed in English poetry.
derivatives
- gravély
- adverb
- gravéness
- noun
grave
3 (grāv)
[Middle English graven, from Old English grafan.]
transitive verb: graved, grav·en (grā́vən) or graved, grav·ing, graves.
- To sculpt or carve; engrave.
- To stamp or impress deeply; fix permanently.
grave
4 (grāv)
[Middle English graven.]
transitive verb: graved, grav·ing, graves.
- To clean and coat (the bottom of a wooden ship) with pitch.
gra·ve
5 (grä́vā)
[Italian, from Latin gravis, heavy; see grave2.]
adverb adjective
Music- In a slow and solemn manner. Used chiefly as a direction.
