Définition de « urn » en Anglais

noun

1. A vase with a footed base.

2. A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.

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

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

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.

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

verb

1. (transitive) To place in an urn.