All 18 Uses of
grave
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- A very riband in the cap of youth,
Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears
Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
Importing health and graveness.†Scene 4.7 *graveness = the degree of seriousness
- There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
To tell us this.†Scene 1.5
- Into my grave?†
Scene 2.2
- —Indeed, this counsellor
Is now most still, most secret, and most grave,
Who was in life a foolish peating knave.†Scene 3.4
- Larded all with sweet flowers;
Which bewept to the grave did go
With true-love showers.†Scene 4.5
- They bore him barefac'd on the bier
Hey no nonny, nonny, hey nonny
And on his grave rain'd many a tear.†Scene 4.5
- I tell thee she is; and therefore make her grave straight: the
crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial.†Scene 5.1
- There is no
ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers: they
hold up Adam's profession.†Scene 5.1
- Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will
not mend his pace with beating; and when you are asked this
question next, say 'a grave-maker;' the houses he makes last
till doomsday.†Scene 5.1
- Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at
grave-making?†Scene 5.1
- —Whose grave's this, sir?†
Scene 5.1
- —How long hast thou been a grave-maker?†
Scene 5.1
- I hop'd thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife;
I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid,
And not have strew'd thy grave.†Scene 5.1
- —Hold off the earth awhile,
Till I have caught her once more in mine arms:
[Leaps into the grave.]†Scene 5.1
- [Leaps into the grave.†
Scene 5.1
- [The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave.†
Scene 5.1
- To outface me with leaping in her grave?†
Scene 5.1
- —This grave shall have a living monument:
An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;
Till then in patience our proceeding be.†Scene 5.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(grave as in: Her manner was grave.) serious and/or solemnThe exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
Better known meanings of grave and gravity:Less common meanings of grave:- grave -- a place where a dead body is buried
- gravity -- in the sense of physics to refer to the force of attraction between all masses in the universe--especially the force that causes things to fall toward the earth
- death -- as in "A message from beyond the grave."
- describing a color as dark
- to sculpt with a chisel
- to clean and coat the bottom of a wooden ship with pitch
- grave accent -- a punctuation mark (`) that is used in some non-English languages, and that is placed over some letters of the alphabet to tell how they are pronounced.
- grave musical direction -- in a slow and solemn manner