URN
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8.2
- noun
- /jʊərn/
- Specialized
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URN
- After her passing, the family decided to keep her ashes in a beautiful urn on the mantelpiece.
- Grecian urn
Examples
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The funeral home provided a simple urn for the ashes after the cremation.
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His burial urn was placed amongst symbols of great power, because even his ashes were supposed to be still very dangerous.
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You hand me an urn with somebody in it.
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I'm just saying, normal people put remains in an urn.
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Michael receives the urn from the priest.
Fiction book (1995) -
We're supposed to put Grandpa's urn up there with those.
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Inside the urn were the last earthly remains.
Fiction book (1992) -
Then, as if putting out the garbage, she held out the urn of ashes to be scattered off Land's End.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Why buy an urn when you're going to scatter the ashes anyway?" the funeral director said.
Fiction book (2002) -
My darling Peggy, by the time you read this... I'll be in an urn at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word URN comes from the first letters of Uniform, Resource, and Name, where Uniform means 'the same', Resource means 'a thing you can use', and Name means 'a label'. So an URN is a 'stable name' for a digital item, a permanent label that still identifies it even if its 'web address' changes.