headstone

/ˈhɛdstoʊn/

Etymology

From head + stone.

headstone means A gravestone, a grave marker: a monument traditionally made of stone placed at the head of a grave. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 75 out of 100.

Why this word is great

HEADSTONE — [Noun] A stone marker, typically upright, placed at the head of a grave. From head (referring to the position at the head of a grave) + stone (its material). Unlike tombstone, a word that drifted from denoting a coffin's lid, or cornerstone, a stone of ceremonial commencement, a headstone is a stone of conclusion—its purpose fixed and final. It is the granite ledger grown cold by a century of weather, the stark incision of a name resisting the moss, the solitary angle of shadow cast across tended grass. It is the last earthly edit, a vertical full stop in the earth from which all biography is measured.

noun

A gravestone, a grave marker: a monument traditionally made of stone placed at the head of a grave.“He called the contractor and ordered a replacement headstone with a new inscription.”
The cornerstone or principal stone of a building.