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PRONUNCIATION OF WAR GRAVE

war grave  [wɔː ɡreɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAR GRAVE

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
War grave is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WAR GRAVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

war grave

War grave

A war grave is a burial place for members of the armed forces or civilians who died during military campaigns or operations. The term does not only apply to graves: ships sunk during wartime are often considered to be war graves, as are military aircraft that crash into water; this is particularly true if crewmen perished inside the vehicle. Classification of a war grave is not limited to the occupier's death in combat but includes military personnel who die while in active service: for example, during the Crimean War, more military personnel died of disease than as a result of enemy action. A common difference between cemeteries of war graves and those of civilian peacetime graves is the uniformity of those interred. They generally died during a relatively short period, in a small geographic area and consist of service members from the few military units involved. In the United Kingdom, 67 ship wrecks and all underwater military aircraft are "protected places" under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 which imposes restrictions on their exploration and marine salvage.

Definition of war grave in the English dictionary

The definition of war grave in the dictionary is a grave of a person killed in battle; a ship that was sunk in battle with troops aboard.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WAR GRAVE


architrave
ˈɑːkɪˌtreɪv
brave
breɪv
burgrave
ˈbɜːɡreɪv
Cosgrave
ˈkɒzɡreɪv
crave
kreɪv
deprave
dɪˈpreɪv
engrave
ɪnˈɡreɪv
grave
ɡreɪv
landgrave
ˈlændˌɡreɪv
margrave
ˈmɑːˌɡreɪv
Musgrave
ˈmʌzɡreɪv
outbrave
ˌaʊtˈbreɪv
Palgrave
ˈpɔːlɡreɪv
palsgrave
ˈpɔːlzɡreɪv
photoengrave
ˌfəʊtəʊɪnˈɡreɪv
rave
reɪv
Redgrave
ˈrɛdˌɡreɪv
reengrave
ˌriːɪnˈɡreɪv
trave
treɪv
waldgrave
ˈwɔːldˌɡreɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAR GRAVE

war clouds
war correspondent
war crime
war criminal
war cry
war dance
War Department
war establishment
war fever
war footing
war game
war hero
war memorial
War of 1812
War of American Independence
war of nerves

WORDS THAT END LIKE WAR GRAVE

ave
cave
Drave
embrave
from the cradle to the grave
gave
have
have one foot in the grave
leave
mass grave
must-have
nave
one foot in the grave
outrave
pauper´s grave
save
the grave
the New Wave
to make someone turn in his grave
wave

Synonyms and antonyms of war grave in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «war grave» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAR GRAVE

Find out the translation of war grave to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of war grave from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «war grave» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

战争坟墓
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tumba de guerra
570 millions of speakers

English

war grave
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

युद्ध कब्र
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قبر حرب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

война могила
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sepultura guerra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যুদ্ধ কবর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tombe de guerre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kubur perang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kriegsgräber
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

戦争墓
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전쟁 무덤
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perang kuburan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tích chiến tranh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போர் கல்லறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

युद्ध गंभीर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Savaş mezarı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tomba di guerra
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wojna grób
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

війна могила
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mormânt de război
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πόλεμο τάφο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oorlog graf
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

krig grav
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

krig grav
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of war grave

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAR GRAVE»

The term «war grave» is regularly used and occupies the 76.881 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAR GRAVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «war grave» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «war grave» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about war grave

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAR GRAVE»

Discover the use of war grave in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to war grave and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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American Military Cemeteries, 2d ed.
U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. MOH: William S. Beebe, USA, Civil War, Grave N-15; William H.H. Benyaurd, USA, Civil War, Grave T-1; Daniel Adams Butterfield, USA, Civil War, Grave R-15; Eugene Asa Carr, USA, Civil War, Grave  ...
Dean W. Holt, 2010
2
War/time
Miyazaki's work is a gentle fantasy of childhood imagination in the pastoral setting of 1950s Japan, a time seemingly untouched by war. Grave, on the other hand, set in Kobe 1945, in the waning days of World War II, is a realistic drama, ...
Frenchy Lunning, 2009
3
Australian National Bibliography
(War grave scries) Cover title: Names and particulars of all ( A.I.F.) men buried in the Lijssenthock Military Cemetery. ISBN 1875609016 NSL:R CONTRIBUTED CATALOGUING Subjects: Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914- 192 1 ) ...
‎1978
4
Conflicted Nationalism and World War I in Belgium: Memory ...
Building on the research of Victor and Edith Turner, Tony Walter provides a useful differentiation between a pilgrim and a tourist as he specifically addresses war grave pilgrimage.481 Walter identifies several characteristics that link battlefield ...
Karen Dale Shelby, 2008
5
Goldfinder
Report prepared by the Ministry of Defence in response to the allegations of disrespect to the HMS Edinburgh War Grave, made by Barrie Penrose It has sometimes been said that the M.o.D should never have allowed access to the wreck.
Keith Jessop, Neil Hanson, 2002
6
Union County's Black Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War
Not so evident is that a significant number of the Civil War grave markers bear the name of blacks, who are not identified as such, who served in what has historically been assumed to be all-white regiments organized in Union County.
Ethel M. Washington, 2011
7
The Gold Star Mother Pilgrimages of the 1930s: Overseas ...
Allies of the United States saw the need for war grave pilgrimages and encouraged them at every turn. However, England, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand never seriously considered government-sponsored trips for its war mothers and ...
John W. Graham, 2005
8
Researching Local History: The Human Journey
War grave records Meticulous records are kept of the graves or official memorials of war casualties. The custodians of grave and memorial records and of the graves themselves are the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), ...
Michael A. Williams, 2014
9
The Cambridge Companion to War Writing
Matching the mystery of the war zone and its lethal tree (the makeshift grave on the hillside) to the war grave memorial creates twin sites preserving the double memory of the poet's body for those of us ranged along other hillsides. The war ...
Kate McLoughlin, 2009
10
The Cambridge Companion to War Writing
Matching the mystery of the war zone and its lethal tree (the makeshift grave on the hillside) to the war grave memorial creates twin sites preserving the double memory of the poet's body for those of us ranged along other hillsides. The war ...
Catherine Mary McLoughlin, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAR GRAVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term war grave is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lancastria: Calls for WW2 sinking to be commemorated
Campaigners including former army head, Gen Lord Dannatt, as well as relatives of those who died, want the wreck to be formally designated a war grave. «BBC News, May 15»
2
Pre-Anzac Day attack: cemetery with 100 Australian war graves
An attack on a first world war cemetery near London containing the graves of more than 100 Australians should not deter people from attending Anzac Day ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
3
Overseas war graves neglected, Veterans Affairs review finds
Veterans Affairs spent millions less than it budgeted for maintaining war graves last year in cemeteries like those in Italy visited recently by Julian Fantino, ... «CBC.ca, Dec 14»
4
Lorca's grave a goal in Spain's Civil War search
ALFACAR, Spain (AP) — A search for unmarked Spanish Civil War graves has begun in southern Spain and officials hope it may reveal the burial site of ... «Yahoo News, Nov 14»
5
U-turn as officials FINALLY allow Tower of London poppies to be …
WAR grave bosses have u-turned on a controversial ban on placing Tower of London poppies on the graves of World War One's fallen soldiers. By Peter Henn. «Express.co.uk, Nov 14»
6
Relatives of fallen soldiers BANNED from placing ceramic poppies …
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission said it would remove the £25 poppies. Jobsworths claimed the Tower Of London flowers would breach rules about ... «Daily Star, Oct 14»
7
Nazi submarine wreck found off coast of US likely contains remains …
“We have this notion generally that World War II happened in Europe and the South Pacific.” Here is “a .... U-576 is now “a war grave,” Hoyt said. “We believe ... «National Post, Oct 14»
8
War graves: First World War archive goes online
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, has completed a five-year project to digitise more than 300,000 documents relating to those who died in the two ... «The Week UK, Jul 14»
9
Japan's Hawkish PM Abe Visits Controversial Shrine That Honors …
There is hatred, you see, between the chinese and japanese due to the war, yet i have no ..... Of course any Japanese citizen has the right to pray at a war grave. «TIME, Dec 13»
10
War Graves 'Have Enormous Power To Engage'
War Graves 'Have Enormous Power To Engage'. Gravestones in France are well-known - but similarly poignant cemeteries are in every nation where world war ... «Sky News, Nov 13»

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