urn.
A vase with a footed base.
Meaning & usage
A vase with a footed base.
A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
Any place of burial; the grave.
A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”). Doublet of urna.
To place in an urn.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”). Doublet of urna.
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