Epitaph - English meaning

noun

The action or fact of commemorating a dead person or past event.

Usage examples:

Local martyrs received public commemoration

noun

(in modern literature) a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

Usage examples:

Addison was buried in westminster abbey, and lamented in an elegy by tickell.

noun

A print made from an engraved plate, block, or other surface.

Usage examples:

The scene is depicted in a contemporary engraving by william hogarth

verb

Cut or carve (a text or design) on the surface of a hard object.

Usage examples:

My name was engraved on the ring

noun

A picture or design printed on paper from a hard, usually metal, surface in which cuts have been made, or this process

Usage examples:

[ c ] the museum owns many fine 18th-century engravings., [ u ] the book describes the art of engra…

noun

A print produced by the process of etching.

Usage examples:

Etchings of animals and wildflowers

verb

Engrave (metal, glass, or stone) by coating it with a protective layer, drawing on it with a needle, and then covering it with acid to attack the parts the needle has exposed, especially in order to produce prints from it.

Usage examples:

Aquatint is a process of achieving tone by etching a metal plate

noun

A picture produced by printing from a metal plate that has been prepared with acid

noun

A thing inscribed, as on a monument or in a book.

Usage examples:

The inscription on her headstone

noun

Words that are written or cut in something

Usage examples:

The inscription read "to darling molly, christmas 1904"., the inscriptions on the gravestones were …

noun

A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated.

Usage examples:

The legend of king arthur

adjective

Very well known.

Usage examples:

His speed and ferocity in attack were legend

noun

An old story or set of stories from ancient times, or the stories that people tell about a famous event or person

Usage examples:

[ u ] cajun legend suggests that white alligators are a symbol of prosperity., louis armstrong is a…

noun

A notice of a death, especially in a newspaper, typically including a brief biography of the deceased person.

Usage examples:

His obituary of samuel beckett

noun

A notice, esp. in a newspaper, of a person’s death, usually with details about his or her life