coffin
A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burialA closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
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9 sensesA closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
Sarg
гробgrob, домови́наdomovína
труна́truná, грібhrib, домови́наdomovýna
box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
The eighth Lenormand card.
The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
More meanings 6
A storage container for nuclear waste.
A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.
(Cornwall, broadly)A deep ditch.
(archaic)A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
(obsolete)A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
(Cornwall, obsolete)An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
Origin
From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basketFrom Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer. Displaced native Old English þrūh.
Borrowed from Cornish koghyn (“exploratory trench”), with spelling likely influenced by etymology 1.
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Forms
plural: coffinsSynonyms
6 synonyms- box in which a corpse is buried or cremated:casket
Word family
26 related wordsSee also
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