epitaph / ˈɛp ɪˌtæf, -ˌtɑf /

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epitaph2 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site.
  2. a brief poem or other writing in praise of a deceased person.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to commemorate in or with an epitaph.

epitaph 近义词

n. 名词 noun

inscription on a gravestone

更多epitaph例句

  1. The future of movies is unwritten—but let’s get through this harvest, a rich one, before we chisel the epitaph.
  2. Still, infiltration of militants from Pakistan has not stopped completely, and experts point out it’s too early to write the epitaph of Kashmir’s militancy — at least 26 armed fighters have entered Kashmir this year.
  3. When he ended Vieux Carré with the stage direction, “The house is empty now,” Lahr somberly terms it “an augury and an epitaph.”
  4. In the unlikely event McConnell loses his reelection bid, I already know the title for his political epitaph: Shameless.
  5. Weil believes they are a fitting epitaph to a man often described as the most influential British publisher of his generation.
  6. So he entitled one of his earlier books, thus already authoring his own epitaph.
  7. A stone mason was employed to engrave the following epitaph on a tradesman's wife: "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband."
  8. Here—stop and look—is the epitaph of one, a considerable fellow in his day, a barrister of the Middle Temple.
  9. He was sumptuously buried in Kensal Green, where a marble pedestal carries his portrait and his epitaph.
  10. The following epitaph given by Maitland commemorates a martyrdom of this reign.
  11. While digging here in 1856, De Rossi found the important epitaph of Eusebius before given.