grave goods

grave goods

See also: grave-goods

English

Alternative forms

• grave-goods

Noun

grave goods pl (normally plural, singular grave good)

1. (archaeology) The artefacts (jewellery, animals, slaves, etc) buried with a dead person in a grave or tomb.

Translations

objects buried with a body

Danish: gravgods n, gravgave c (single item) French: mobilier funéraire m German: Grabbeigabe (de) f sg, Grabbeigaben (de) f pl, Totengabe (de) f Italian: corredo (it) m

Norwegian: Bokmål: gravgods n Russian: погреба́льные предме́ты m pl (pogrebálʹnyje predméty) Spanish: ajuar funerario

Further reading

• Grave goods on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “grave goods” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.