Tombstone

Noun



 * 1) A headstone marking the person's grave.
 * 2) * 1922,,  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.
 * 1)  The symbol "∎:" marking the end of a proof.

Synonyms

 * headstone, gravestone
 * (mathematics) halmos

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 2005, Bruce Jenkins, Surfer magazine, (referring to Kelly Slater) :
 * 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,

Thesaurus
arch, barrow, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, cenotaph, column, cromlech, cross, cup, cyclolith, dolmen, footstone, grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, inscription, ledger, marker, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, obelisk, obituary, pillar, plaque, prize, pyramid, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rostral column, shaft, shrine, stela, stone, stupa, tablet, testimonial, tomb, tope, trophy

Noun

 * Catalan: làpida
 * Chinese: 墓碑
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Grabstein m, Leichenstein
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: batu nisan
 * Italian: lapide f pietra tombale


 * Japanese: 墓石
 * Latin: ,
 * Norwegian: gravminne
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, надгробная плита, могильная плита
 * Scottish Gaelic: leac
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Yiddish: מצבֿה