Meaning

6 senses
  1. A vase with a footed base.

    Urne

    у́рнаúrna

  2. A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.

    Kaffeespender, Teespender, Heißgetränkespender

    ча́йникčájnik, кофе́йникkoféjnik

    a large pot for making coffee or tea

  3. A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.

    Urne

    у́рнаúrna

  4. (figuratively)Any place of burial; the grave.

  5. (Roman, historical)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.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. This is an urn.

    ruЭто урна. — Katie_Yves

  2. The children broke the ancient urn.

    ruДети разбили старинную урну. — Karok

    deDie Kinder zerbrachen die antike Urne. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom keeps his guitar picks in an urn.

  4. Grandmother's ashes are in an urn at the temple.

    ruПрах бабушки находится в урне в храме. — sharptoothed

    deDie Asche von Großmutter ist in einer Urne im Tempel. — MUIRIEL

  5. Tom keeps the ashes of his cat in an urn.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
a vase with a footed base:
a metal vessel for serving tea or coffee:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
a vase with a footed base:
a metal vessel for serving tea or coffee:

Origin

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

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

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