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Urn

noun
/ɜːn/
Word Frequency: 2.6

Definitions

1.nounA vase with a footed base.
2.nounA metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
3.nounA vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
4.nounAny place of burial; the grave.
5.nounA measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
6.nounA hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
7.verbTo place in an urn.

Synonyms

jarsamovarashvasecinerarycinderossuariumossuaryboxdollvoteballot

Rhymes With

discerntaciturnsternconcernspurnreturndernchurn
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