epitaph
IPA: ˈɛpʌtæf
noun
- An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
- A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.
verb
- (intransitive) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
- (transitive) To commemorate by an epitaph.
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Examples of "epitaph" in Sentences
- This epitaph dates from long time ago.
- In short, the epitaph is now the order of the day
- He is also the owner of the music label Epitaph Records.
- By the end of the year they had signed to Epitaph Records.
- He also wrote the epitaph for the tomb of Jean Paul Marat.
- I will of course, weep at the tumbril, and write the epitaph.
- I copy down the name and epitaph and next to it I write “ghost?”
- Ernest Hemingway once became known for writing a six word epitaph:
- The epitaph on the tomb celebrated Basil's campaigns and victories.
- Conder composed the last part of the epitaph for his own headstone.
- According to the epitaph on the Louw Wepener Monument he was born in 1812.
- An epitaph on the tomb states that the tomb was restored in the Ayyubid period.
- Palfrey and Hedge read Parker's Latin epitaph on Chev, amazed at the bad Latinity.
- The simplicity of this scene recalls the epitaph which is said to have been written in honor of
- An epitaph is the inscription found on a tombstone that summarizes and memorializes the deceased.
- And her epitaph is delivered by Ben, who says without any hint of irony, “I guess the island was done with her.”
- An epitaph is on a gravestone, and while I am sure they would be happy to oblige, that wasn’t what they were actually throwing, I don’t think ….
- a month after this great deliverance, the champion expired; and his most splendid epitaph is the regret of the Ottoman prince, who sighed that he could no longer hope for revenge against the single antagonist who had triumphed over his arms.
- Author Nigel Rees brings to bear upon the strange and sometimes surprising world of the epitaph his formidable skills as an ‘archaeologist’ of the sources of quotation and phrases: each epitaph is explained and located, and its source and context described as fully as possible.
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