urn

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɜːn/    美 /ɝn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
  3. A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
    — So draw him home to those that mourn ⁠In vain; a favourable speed ⁠Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn.
  4. Any place of burial; the grave. figuratively
    — Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, / Tombless, with no remembrance over them.
  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. Roman,historical
  6. A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
动词 v.
  1. To place in an urn. transitive

词形变化

urns plural urne alternative,obsolete urns present,singular,third-person urning participle,present urned participle,past urned past urne alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
cinerary urn knife urn lachrymal urn tea urn urn moss urn tree

词源

词源 1
From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”). Doublet of urna.
词源 2
From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”). Doublet of urna.
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