Usually means: Inscription commemorating someone's life, death.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word epitaph:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. epitaph: Merriam-Webster
  2. epitaph: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epitaph: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. epitaph: Collins English Dictionary
  5. epitaph: Vocabulary.com
  6. Epitaph, epitaph: Wordnik
  7. epitaph: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. epitaph: Wiktionary
  9. epitaph: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. epitaph: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. epitaph: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Epitaph, epitaph: Dictionary.com
  13. epitaph: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. epitaph: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Epitaph: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. epitaph: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. epitaph: Rhymezone
  19. epitaph: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. epitaph: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. epitaph: FreeDictionary.org
  22. epitaph: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Epitaph: The Word Detective
  24. epitaph: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. epitaph: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  2. EPITAPH: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epitaph: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epitaph: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epitaph: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See epitaphial as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
noun:  A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.
verb:  (intransitive) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
verb:  (transitive) To commemorate by an epitaph.

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