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Epigraph vs. Epitaph — What's the Difference?

Epigraph vs. Epitaph — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Epigraph and Epitaph

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Epigraph

An inscription, as on a statue or building.

Epitaph

An epitaph (from Greek ἐπιτάφιος epitaphios "a funeral oration" from ἐπί epi "at, over" and τάφος taphos "tomb") is a short text honoring a deceased person. Strictly speaking, it refers to text that is inscribed on a tombstone or plaque, but it may also be used in a figurative sense.

Epigraph

A motto or quotation, as at the beginning of a literary composition, setting forth a theme.

Epitaph

An inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there.

Epigraph

An inscription, especially on a building.
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Epitaph

A brief literary piece commemorating a deceased person.

Epigraph

A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.

Epitaph

An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.

Epigraph

The set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.

Epitaph

A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.

Epigraph

(transitive) To provide (a literary work) with an epigraph.

Epitaph

(intransitive) To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.

Epigraph

Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.

Epitaph

(transitive) To commemorate by an epitaph.

Epigraph

A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.

Epitaph

An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb.

Epigraph

A quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing

Epitaph

A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."

Epigraph

An engraved inscription

Epitaph

To commemorate by an epitaph.
Let me be epitaphed the inventor of English hexameters.

Epitaph

To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
The common in their speeches epitaph upon him . . . "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."

Epitaph

An inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there

Epitaph

A summary statement of commemoration for a dead person

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