1 words that are written or said about a dead person, especially words on a GRAVESTONE:
His epitaph read: 'A just and noble countryman'.
2 ~ (to sb/sth) something which is left to remind people of a particular person, a period of time or an event:
These slums are an epitaph to the housing policy of the 1960s.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for epitaph is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is epitaph a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, epitaph is tagged as noun.
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