Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "coffin" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

funeral graveyard

Causes

death

Derived Terms

Coffin-Lowry syndrome Coffin-Siris syndrome Job's Coffin Y-shaped coffin another nail in someone's coffin another nail in the coffin coffin birth coffin bone coffin corner coffin dodger coffin fly coffin handle coffin nail coffin ride coffin rider coffin ship coffin tack coffin window coffinful coffinless coffinlike coffinmaker coffinmaking drive a nail in someone's coffin encoffin encoffiner encoffinment final nail in the coffin flying coffin hanging coffin last nail in the coffin nail in one's coffin recoffin safety coffin treetrunk coffin uncoffin

Context

cartomancy

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

box lay place pose position put set

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

casket

Type Of (IsA)

box storage device

Manner Of

put

Receives Action

found in cemetary

Related Terms

bed bodies body box burial burial box burial casket burial home buried buried in burying burying dead cadaver casket cemetery container dead dead bodies dead body dead lay dead people death death bed death box death container funerals grave grave box grave yards ground handles home house human item lay lenormand people person rectangular sides six six sides sleeping vampire vampire bed vampire house vampires vampires sleeping wooded wooded item wooden wooden box yards

Synonym Network

casket encoffin

Used For

burying dead people

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.