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Urn

//ɝn// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A vase with a footed base.

    "A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, […]found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn."

  2. 2
    Initialism of uniform resource name. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. 3
    a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet wordnet
  4. 4
    A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
  5. 5
    a large pot for making coffee or tea wordnet
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  1. 6
    A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.

    "So draw him home to those that mourn ⁠In vain; a favourable speed ⁠Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn."

  2. 7
    Any place of burial; the grave. figuratively

    "Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, / Tombless, with no remembrance over them."

  3. 8
    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. Roman, historical
  4. 9
    A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
Verb
  1. 1
    To place in an urn. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”). Doublet of urna.

Etymology 2

From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”). Doublet of urna.

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