casket
103
5.5
- noun
- /ˈkæskɪt/
- US
:
ataúd
- The service closed, the pallbearers lifted the casket and carried it through the French doors to the waiting hearse.
- an open casket
- view an open casket
But, you know, that's, that's a little bit larger casket than your standard casket.
- But, you know, that's, that's a little bit larger casket than your standard casket.
- I remember seeing the open casket and everything.
- I found in the pocket of his suit in the open casket his comb.
- Shereen's funeral was attacked, the power bears were beaten, her casket almost fell.
- And he actually helped build my Tata's casket with, with my, with my, with my Tata's brother.
- But Workman had some tattoos and they, they showed me his casket.
- I mean, they're, they're, they're carrying corpses in caskets through the Maidan.
- Today we're going inside a casket.
- Then finally, on your deathbed, she'll copy your casket, your funeral flowers.
- We walked up to a coffin and it was a open casket, first touch of death.
- It's like the, the open casket thing, the wake thing.
Examples
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Artificial grass carpets were all around the casket, which was on boards over the deep ditch of the earth.
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The Army brought the flag draped casket on board.
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Initially, it was the casket of a baby.
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When their mother died, strangers came to look into the casket in the corner of the front room.
Academic text (2007) -
Inside the stadium, the officer's body lay in a casket as one of his own police dogs stood nearby.
Academic text (2016) -
I was always the one weeping by her open casket.
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Ellen and the boys moved forward as the casket was lowered into the grave.
Fiction book (1991) -
The artificial figure in the satin casket bore no resemblance to her brother at all.
Fiction book (1990) -
During the ceremony, family members gathered around the casket to pay their last respects.
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The casket was adorned with beautiful flowers as it rested in the chapel.
Synonyms
287
2.7
A long, narrow wooden box for burying or cremating a dead body
Compounds
How Ornate
- US
103
5.5
287
2.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
Casket once meant a small 'box'. People later used it for the 'box' that holds a dead body, and that's why casket also means a coffin.