urn

a vessel or vase

Not to be confused with:

earn – to acquire by effort: earn a living

URN

abbr.

uniform resource name

urn

(ûrn)

1. A vase of varying size and shape, usually having a footed base or pedestal, especially a lidded vase used to hold the ashes of one who has been cremated.

2. A closed metal vessel having a spigot and used for warming or serving tea or coffee.

3. Botany The spore-bearing part of a moss capsule.

[Middle English urne, from Latin urna.]

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urn

(ɜːn)

1. a vaselike receptacle or vessel, esp a large bulbous one with a foot

2. a vase used as a receptacle for the ashes of the dead

3. (Cookery) a large vessel, usually of metal, with a tap, used for making and holding tea, coffee, etc

4. (Botany) botany the spore-producing capsule of a moss

[C14: from Latin ūrna; related to Latin ūrere to burn, urceus pitcher, Greek hurkhē jar]

ˈurnˌlike adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

urn

(ɜrn)

n.

1. a large or decorative vase, esp. one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.

2. a vase for holding the ashes of the cremated dead.

3. a large metal container with a spigot, used for making or serving tea or coffee in quantity.

4. the spore-bearing part of the capsule of a moss, between lid and seta.

[1325–75; Middle English urne < Latin urna earthen vessel, akin to urceus pitcher, Greek hýrchē jar]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	urn - a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet vase - an open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers
	2.	urn - a large pot for making coffee or tea coffee urn - an urn in which coffee is made and kept hot pot - metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid samovar - a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea tea urn - an urn in which tea is brewed and from which it is served

Translations

غلايَة كَبيرَة للشّايقارورَه، جَرَّه

samovarurna

=-maskineurne

Urne Maschine

urna

urne bac baquet

szamovárurna

krukka; duftkerstór hitakanna

urna samovar

urna

tējkanna/kafijkannaurna

kaffemaskin samovar temaskin urne

urna

урна

samovarurna

žara

semaver vazo

茶水壶骨灰瓮

urn

[ɜːn] N

1. (= vase) → urna f

2. (= tea urn) → tetera f; (= coffee urn) → cafetera f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

urn

[kəˈnəʊpɪk ˈɜː^rn] n

(= vase) → urne f

(also funeral urn) → urne f funéraire

(also tea urn) → fontaine f à thé

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

urn

→ Urne f

(also tea urn, coffee urn) → Kessel m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

urn

[ɜːn] n

a. (vase) → urna

b. (also tea urn, coffee urn) capace contenitore provvisto di cannella per tè, caffè (specialmente nelle mense)

urn

(əːn) noun

1. a tall vase or other container, especially for holding the ashes of a dead person. a stone-age burial urn.

2. a large metal container with a tap, in which tea or coffee is made eg in a canteen etc. a tea-urn.

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The knight Peleus took me into his house, entreated me kindly, and named me to be your squire; therefore let our bones lie in but a single urn, the two-handled golden vase given to you by your mother."

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From a group of Elves, whose rose-wreathed wands showed the flower they loved, came one bearing a tiny urn, and, answering the Queen, she said,--

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Jane was already at the door with the hissing urn. "Tell her to keep away, will you?" said Godfrey; and when the door was closed again he exerted himself to speak more distinctly.

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Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners be outcast men,

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Crisparkle--mother, not wife of the Reverend Septimus--was only just down, and waiting for the urn. Indeed, the Reverend Septimus left off at this very moment to take the pretty old lady's entering face between his boxing-gloves and kiss it.

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I judged him to be a bachelor from the frayed condition of his linen, and he appeared to have sustained a good many bereavements; for, he wore at least four mourning rings, besides a brooch representing a lady and a weeping willow at a tomb with an urn on it.

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Here all is literal, even to the severed arm of Wolfe, and the urn which held the ashes of Queen Dido.*

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The Ode on a Grecian Urn is more lovely now than when it was written, because for a hundred years lovers have read it and the sick at heart taken comfort in its lines."

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My Lady turned to the Professor, who had uncovered the urn, and was taking its temperature with his pocket-thermometer.

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I read at the time I have just been speaking of, nearly all the new poetry as it came out, and I constantly recurred to it in its mossier sources, where it sprang from the green English ground, or trickled from the antique urns of Italy.

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At one end of the path was a classical statue of some nameless nymph, and at the other end it was flanked by two classical urns; but the marble was weather-stained and streaked with green and gray.

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It stirs my world of the past like a summons to resurrection; the graves unclose, the dead are raised; thoughts, feelings, memories that slept, are seen by me ascending from the clods--haloed most of them--but while I gaze on their vapoury forms, and strive to ascertain definitely their outline, the sound which wakened them dies, and they sink, each and all, like a light wreath of mist, absorbed in the mould, recalled to urns, resealed in monuments.

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