noun
Meaning 1
A vase with a footed base.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
urn
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ɜːn/
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US: /ɝn/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)n
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homophone: earn
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CMU ARPABET: ER1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
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noun
Meaning 3
A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
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noun
Meaning 4
Any place of burial; the grave.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
Meaning 5
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Roman, historical
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noun
Meaning 6
A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
Initialism of uniform resource name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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verb
Meaning 8
To place in an urn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 9
a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: vase
noun
Meaning 10
a large pot for making coffee or tea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: pot
Narrower terms: coffee urn, samovar, tea urn
History
Etymology
From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”). Doublet of urna.
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: urna — a vase with a footed base
- Bulgarian: у́рна (úrna) — a vase with a footed base
- Catalan: urna — a vase with a footed base
- Chinese Mandarin: 甕 /瓮 (wèng) — a vase with a footed base
- Esperanto: urno — a vase with a footed base
- Faliscan: urna (urna) — a vase with a footed base
- French: urne — a vase with a footed base
- German: Urne — a vase with a footed base
- Greek: υδρία (ydría) — a vase with a footed base
- Hungarian: urna — a vase with a footed base
- Indonesian: pasu — a vase with a footed base
- Italian: urna — a vase with a footed base
- Latin: urna — a vase with a footed base
- Macedonian: урна (urna) — a vase with a footed base
- Macedonian: ќуп (ḱup) — a vase with a footed base
- Norwegian: urne — a vase with a footed base
- Norwegian Bokmål: urne — a vase with a footed base
- Norwegian Nynorsk: urne — a vase with a footed base
- Portuguese: urna — a vase with a footed base
- Russian: у́рна (úrna) — a vase with a footed base
- Spanish: urna — a vase with a footed base
- Yiddish: אורנע (urne) — a vase with a footed base
- Bulgarian: ча́йник (čájnik) — a metal vessel for serving tea or coffee
- German: Kaffeespender — a metal vessel for serving tea or coffee
- German: Teespender — a metal vessel for serving tea or coffee
- German: Heißgetränkespender — a metal vessel for serving tea or coffee
- Russian: ча́йник (čájnik) — a metal vessel for serving tea or coffee
- Russian: кофе́йник (koféjnik) — a metal vessel for serving tea or coffee
- Armenian: սափոր (sapʻor) — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Bulgarian: у́рна (úrna) — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Chinese Mandarin: 骨灰罈 /骨灰坛 — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Czech: urna — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Finnish: uurna — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- French: urne — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- German: Urne — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Greek: τεφροδόχος (tefrodóchos) — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Ancient Greek: λάρναξ (lárnax) — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Hungarian: urna — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Icelandic: duftker — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Indonesian: perabuan — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Latin: urna — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Macedonian: урна (urna) — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Norwegian: urne — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Norwegian Bokmål: urne — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Norwegian Nynorsk: urne — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Polish: urna — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Portuguese: urna — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Russian: у́рна (úrna) — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Serbo-Croatian: жара — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Serbo-Croatian: žara — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Slovene: žara — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Spanish: urna — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Spanish: urna mortuoria — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Turkish: kremasyon çömleğı — a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person
- Finnish: pysyväisosoite — uniform resource name
- Icelandic: veffangsvísir — uniform resource name