Usually means: Gravestone marking a burial site.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tombstone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Tombstone, tombstone: Merriam-Webster
  3. Tombstone, tombstone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Tombstone, tombstone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tombstone: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tombstone: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tombstone, tombstone: Wordnik
  8. tombstone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tombstone, tombstone: Wiktionary
  10. tombstone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tombstone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tombstone: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tombstone: Dictionary.com
  14. tombstone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tombstone (advertising), Tombstone (burial), Tombstone (comics), Tombstone (data store), Tombstone (disambiguation), Tombstone (film), Tombstone (financial industry), Tombstone (manufacturing), Tombstone (movie), Tombstone (pizza), Tombstone (programming), Tombstone (typography), Tombstone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tombstone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tombstone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tombstone: Rhymezone
  19. Tombstone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tombstone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tombstone: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tombstone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Tombstone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. tombstone: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. tombstone: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. TOMBSTONE: Accounting Glossary
  5. Tombstone: bizterms.net
  6. Tombstone: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  7. Tombstone: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  8. Tombstone: Investopedia
  9. Tombstone (disambiguation), tombstone: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tombstone (cocktail), Tombstone (disambiguation), Tombstone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tombstone (cocktail), tombstone: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. tombstone: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tombstone: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tombstone: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A grave marker, a stone slab or similar object marking a person's grave.
noun:  (mathematics) The symbol "∎" marking the end of a proof.
noun:  (computing, Microsoft Windows) A marker that takes the place of deleted data, allowing for replication of the deletion across servers etc.
noun:  (computing) A crashdump.
noun:  (cardiology) An unusual morphological feature on an electrocardiogram indicative of acute myocardial infarction, characterized by a massive ST elevation.
noun:  (journalism) A printed advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, typically having unadorned centered text in black and white, enclosed in a simple box.
noun:  (art) A museum plaque or caption displaying information about a work of art or exhibited object.
noun:  (slang, archaic) A pawnbroker's ticket.
verb:  (UK, intransitive) To take part in tombstoning: to jump into the sea, etc. from a cliff or other high point so as to enter the water vertically straight.
verb:  (surfing) For a surfboard to stand upright half-submerged in the water (like a tombstone, above) because the surfer is underwater with his or her legrope pulled tight. Often this indicates a surfer in difficulty, either held down by the power of a wave or unconscious and unable to get to the surface.
verb:  (transitive, computing, Microsoft Windows) To replace (an object or data) with a tombstone marker.
noun:  A city in southeastern Arizona.

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