Contextualizebeta

gravedom

noun

Etymology

From grave + -dom.

  1. derived from *gʰrebʰ-✻ — “to dig, scratch, scrape”
  2. inherited from *grabą✻
  3. inherited from *grab✻
  4. inherited from græf
  5. inherited from grave
  6. suffixed as gravedom — “grave + dom”

Definitions

  1. The place, home, abode, or world of the dead

    The place, home, abode, or world of the dead; death; grave.

    • Death comes, and its victims go either into the "sea" — watery gravedom, or into Hades, the earthly gravedom.
    • Whether they figured immediate selection for gravedom, by pointing skeletal finger, was about to commence, or what, I don't know.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gravedom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA