Grave (disambiguation)
Appearance
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A grave is a location where a dead body is buried.
Grave may also refer to:
Phonetics, diacritics and music
[edit]- Grave accent, a diacritical mark
- Backtick or backquote, character on computer keyboards
- Grave (phonetic), a term used to classify sounds
- Grave (tempo), a term for a slow and solemn music tempo or a solemn mood in general
- Grave (band), a Swedish death metal band
Places
[edit]- Grave, Netherlands, a municipality in the Dutch province North Brabant
- La Grave, a commune in southeastern France
- Grave (crater), on the Moon
People
[edit]"Grave" (inclusive of Gravé) as a surname has one origin as an Old Norse occupational name for a "reeve", who was a local official, from the Danelaw counties, of some unspecified but 'middle management' function in feudal societies.[1]
- Dmitry Grave (1863–1939), Russian and Soviet mathematician
- Franz Grave (1932-2022), German Roman Catholic bishop
- Ivan Grave (1874–1960), Soviet general and scientist
- Jean Grave (1854–1939), French anarchist writer
- Jørgen Grave (1909–1988), Norwegian politician
- Manuel Grave (born 1989), Portuguese equestrian rider
- Robert Grave (d. 1600), Anglican priest
- W.W. Grave (1901–1999), English academic
- Hendrik Gravé (1670–1749), Dutch States Navy officer
Other uses
[edit]- Cognate of German Graf, a historical title of the German nobility, as in margrave
- Grave (unit), an old unprefixed name for the kilogram
- Grave, the main character in the third-person shooter video games Gungrave and Beyond the Grave
- "Grave" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), the final episode of the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Grave (film), a 2016 film also titled as Raw
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Fiennes, Joslin (2015). The Origins of English Surnames (Kindle book). Wiltshire, England: Robert Hale. pp. 86, 88. ISBN 978 0 71982 444 9.