urn

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   Any place of burial; the grave.

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

4. 4
   noun

   a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet

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

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