English Dictionary

urn

/ɜːn/

noun

A vase with a footed base. / A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee. / A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person. / (figuratively) Any place of burial; the grave.

She placed a beautiful urn on the mantelpiece.

意味（1）

A vase with a footed base.

A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, […] found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.

意味（2）

A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(figuratively) Any place of burial; the grave.

Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, / Tombless, with no remembrance over them.

意味（5）

(historical, Roman antiquity) 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.

意味（6）

(botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.