tombstone

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Noun

A tombstone in Camp Butler National Cemetery

tombstone (plural tombstones)

1. A headstone marking the person's grave.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 2

     True, there's no harm in crying for one's husband, and the tombstone, though plain, was a solid piece of work, and on summer's days when the widow brought her boys to stand there one felt kindly towards her.

2. (mathematics) The symbol "∎" marking the end of a proof.

Synonyms

• headstone, gravestone
• (mathematics) halmos

Translations

stone on grave

• Catalan: làpida
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 墓碑 (cmn) (mùbēi), 墓石 (cmn) (mùshí)

• Czech: náhrobek (cs) m
• Danish: gravsten (da)
• Dutch: grafsteen (nl) m, zerk (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: tomboŝtono (eo)
• Finnish: hautakivi (fi)
• French: pierre tombale (fr) f
• Georgian: საფლავის ქვა (ka) (saplavis kva)
• German: Grabstein (de) m, Leichenstein (de) m (obsolete)
• Greek: ταφόπλακα (el) (tafóplaka) f
• Hungarian: sírkő (hu)
• Indonesian: batu nisan

• Italian: lapide f pietra tombale
• Japanese: 墓碑 (ja) (ぼひ, bohi), 墓石 (ja) (ぼせき, boseki)
• Latin: lapillus (la) m, lapis (la) m
• Norwegian: gravminne
• Polish: nagrobek (pl) m
• Portuguese: lápide (pt) f
• Romanian: piatră de mormânt (ro) f, piatră funerară (ro) f, lapidă (ro) f
• Russian: надгробие (ru) (nadgróbije) n, надгробная плита (ru) (nadgróbnaja plitá) f, могильная плита (ru) (mogílʹnaja plitá) f
• Scottish Gaelic: leac (gd) f
• Spanish: lápida (es)
• Swedish: gravsten (sv)
• Yiddish: מצבֿה (yi) (matseyve)

See also

• through-stone

Verb

tombstone (third-person singular simple present tombstones, present participle tombstoning, simple past and past participle tombstoned)

1. (surfing) For a surfboard to stand upright half-submerged in the water (like a tombstone, above) because the surfer is underwater with his or her legrope pulled tight. Often this indicates a surfer in difficulty, either held down by the power of a wave or unconscious and unable to get to the surface.
   • 2005, Bruce Jenkins, Surfer magazine, (referring to Kelly Slater) [1]:

     Before the contest even started, Slater went down hard in a warmup session. He took a two-wave hold-down in the semifinals, his board tombstoning eerily for all to see, […]