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You may see some decorations in your community on Halloween. These decorations can be very exquisite. You often see mummies, witches, skeletons, spiders, pumpkin lanterns, black cats, spider webs, ghosts and tombstones. Or are they tombstones? Or a headstones? Is there a difference? Does it matter?
Whether these two words are used to refer to the present tomb or the future tomb, the words "tombstone" and "headstones" refer to the same thing: a graveyard marked with stones. Other words can also be used to refer to grave markers.
The words "tombstone" and "gravestone" used to refer to large slabs of stone used as grave covers or covers. They may have carvings, but their purpose is to fix the dead body in the grave or underground. "Gravestone" is an older word used in the late 14th century, while "tombstone" is in the mid-16th century. Headstone, as the name suggests, refers to a tombstone placed on the head of a tomb. According to the Oxford English dictionary, it is the latest of the three words, produced in 1676.
Today, the words "tombstone" and "headstone" are often used interchangeably to refer to tombstones of any size or style. No matter which word you use, these two words refer to something made of stone, indicating someone's burial place. Sometimes cemeteries have tombstones indicating where people who are still alive will be buried, but most tombstones indicate where someone has been buried. Therefore, whether these two words are used to refer to the present tomb or the future tomb, these two words - "tombstone", "headstone" - refer to the same thing: a graveyard marked with stones.
Regardless of material, shape or size, the word "tombstone" can be used to refer to anything that marks a grave. However, if a monument, or other monument, even though it may look like a tombstone, is not a person's real grave, it will be called a monument, which comes from Greek and means "empty grave". For example, a war monument engraved with the names of soldiers is a monument.
But all this still leaves us with a question: what are the names of Halloween decorations that look like tombstones but are not, or may not even be, made of stone? Because the words "tombstone" and "headstone" are often used as synonyms, it doesn't matter which word to use to describe their replicas in Halloween displays.
