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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陪葬品 (zh) (péizàngpǐn)

• 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, 2019–2022.