grave – English noun declension

English noun forms of grave

Noun: grave
Singulargrave
Pluralgraves

Sample Sentences

  • He had lain in the grave four days. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 11:17:]
  • Let mee not be ashamed, O Lord, for I haue called vpon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the graue. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 31:17:]
  • They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners. [1856, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter X:]
  • […]Meeting is pleasure, parting is a grief; / An inconstant lover is worse than a thief; / A thief can but rob you, and take all you have, / An inconstant lover will bring you to the grave![…] [a. 1769, unknown, The Cuckoo, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2019, lines 9–12:]
  • […]balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave. [1973, “Breathe”, in Roger Waters (lyrics), David Gilmour and Richard Wright (music), The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd:]
  • "Hold your jaw, woman! I've had enough to vex me to-day without you startin' your tantrums. You're jealous of the grave. That's wot's the matter with you." "And her brats can insult me as they like - me that 'as cared for you these five years." [1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:]

Etymology

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'grave', Old English Nouns 'græf', Dutch Nouns 'graf', German Nouns 'Grab', Icelandic Nouns 'gröf'.

Verbs referencing "grave"

Romanian Nouns groapă, German Nouns Grab, English Nouns grift, Danish Nouns grav, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns grav, Swedish Nouns grav, Irish Nouns grábháil, Gothic Nouns 𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰.