urn
/ɜːn//ɝn/
noun
- 1
A vase with a footed base.
- 2
A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
- 3
A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
- 4
Any place of burial; the grave.
- 5
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.
- 6
A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
verb
- 1
To place in an urn.
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