time capsule
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sealed container, buried at a specific location, that contains records of contemporary life, to be rediscovered in the distant future.
noun
An object, place, or collection that encapsulates and preserves the characteristics, culture or essence of a particular time period, usually due to isolation or some specific external influence.
Example Sentences
- "Rail Minister Lord Hendy has placed a time capsule at Ravensthorpe, as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) project. Hendy was joined by Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin, local schoolchildren and TRU apprentices at the burial of the time capsule, which will sit under foundations of a new viaduct."
- "As we've seen, Belarus is a Soviet time capsule that continues only because Russia is keeping it on life support."