Epitaph

Definition:

  • (n.) An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.
  • (n.) A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."
  • (v. t.) To commemorate by an epitaph.
  • (v. i.) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.

Compare epitaph with other words:

epitaph vs. epitaphist

epitaph vs. epitapher

elegy vs. epitaph

epitaph vs. epithet

epitaph vs. phonograph

epigram vs. epitaph

epitaph vs. rip

aught vs. epitaph

epigraph vs. epitaph

epitaph vs. obituary

commemorate vs. epitaph

epitaph vs. speak

epitaph vs. write

epitaph vs. gravestone

epitaph vs. poem

deceased vs. epitaph

epitaph vs. inscription

epitaph vs. eulogy