gravedigger
part of speech
noun (a gravedigger, gravediggers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A person whose job is to dig graves in a cemetery for burying the dead. tree →
2) Someone or something that brings about the end of something (figurative). tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories, history and churchyards; in adult life it is a real, respectful job. Phrases: the old gravedigger, the gravedigger's spade.
examples
- The gravedigger worked quietly in the churchyard. tree →
- Nowadays most gravediggers use small diggers. tree →
- In the story the gravedigger found a strange box. tree →
- The gravedigger tidied the flowers after the funeral. tree →
- Being a gravedigger is hard but important work. tree →
- The village gravedigger also looked after the church garden. tree →
- Deirdre kept sitting on the brink of the grave, constantly asking the gravediggers to dig the pit wide and free. tree →
note
One word, sometimes written grave-digger. Plural gravediggers. Related: grave, cemetery, churchyard, funeral.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «gravedigger» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.