Synonyms for Tombstone
ˈtumˌstoʊntomb·stone

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1. tombstonenoun

   Synonyms:
   halmos, headstone, gravestone

2. tombstonenoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   gravestone, halmos, headstone

3. tombstonenoun

   The symbol marking the end of a proof.

   Synonyms:
   headstone, gravestone, halmos

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1. gravestone, headstone, tombstonenoun

   a stone that is used to mark a grave

   Synonyms:
   tombstone, key, keystone, gravestone, headstone

Matched Categories

1. • Memorial
   • Stone

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. tombstonenoun

   Synonyms:
   monument, cenotaph (honoring one buried elsewhere)

   Associated words:
   sepulchral, epitaph, lapidary

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1. List of paraphrases for "tombstone":

   headstone, gravestone, epitaph

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1. List of known nicknames for "Tombstone":

   Paul O'neil, Paul O'Neill, T-Rocc

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1. Harry S Truman:

   I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

2. Judge Gorsuch:

   What I try to point out is … it’s not how big your bank account balance is -- nobody ever puts that in their draft obituary -- or that they billed the most hours, or that they won the most cases. It’s how they treated other people along the way, for me, [ I think of the ] the words I read [ just ] yesterday from Increase Sumner’s tombstone. I ’d like to be remembered as a good dad, a good husband, kind and mild in private life, dignified and firm in public life... I have no illusions that I ’ll be remembered for very long.

3. Virginia Woolf:

   Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

4. Dorothy Parker:

   That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

5. Rudyard Kipling:

   And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.