urn
/ɝn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
noun
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.
noun
A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
noun
Example Sentences
- "A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, […]found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn."
- "His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, / And once more join us in the pious urn."
- "Mary Fibbs and all her friends start making coughing noises whenever I come near them, and then they all giggle and Mary says Grandfather mixes his cough medicine in the urns on top of the gate posts after dark with his umbrella, and now Jessamy!"
- "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."
- "Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, / Tombless, with no remembrance over them."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɝn/
- British English: /ɜːn/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.