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epitaph
[ ep-i-taf, -tahf ]
noun
- a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site.
- a brief poem or other writing in praise of a deceased person.
verb (used with object)
- to commemorate in or with an epitaph.
epitaph
/ ˈɛpɪˌtɑːf; ˌɛpɪˈtæfɪk; -ˌtæf /
noun
- a commemorative inscription on a tombstone or monument
- a speech or written passage composed in commemoration of a dead person
- a final judgment on a person or thing
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Derived Forms
- epitaphic, adjective
- ˈepiˌtaphist, noun
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Other Words From
- epi·taphic [ep-i-, taf, -ik], adjective
- epi·taphist noun
- epi·taphless adjective
- un·epi·taphed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of epitaph1
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Example Sentences
When he ended Vieux Carré with the stage direction, “The house is empty now,” Lahr somberly terms it “an augury and an epitaph.”
In the unlikely event McConnell loses his reelection bid, I already know the title for his political epitaph: Shameless.
Weil believes they are a fitting epitaph to a man often described as the most influential British publisher of his generation.
So he entitled one of his earlier books, thus already authoring his own epitaph.
A stone mason was employed to engrave the following epitaph on a tradesman's wife: "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband."
Here—stop and look—is the epitaph of one, a considerable fellow in his day, a barrister of the Middle Temple.
He was sumptuously buried in Kensal Green, where a marble pedestal carries his portrait and his epitaph.
The following epitaph given by Maitland commemorates a martyrdom of this reign.
While digging here in 1856, De Rossi found the important epitaph of Eusebius before given.
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