1. a stone marker placed at a grave to identify the person buried there

Examples

• The old gravestone was weathered and difficult to read.
• She placed fresh flowers beside her grandmother’s gravestone.
• The cemetery contained gravestones dating back to the 1800s.
• His name and dates were carved into the marble gravestone.
• The gravestone bore a simple inscription: ‘Beloved husband and father.’
• Moss had grown over the ancient gravestone in the churchyard.
• They visited the gravestone every year on the anniversary of his death.