coffin
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈkɔfɪn/
:
ataúd
- At the grave, gongs are beaten loudly, fireworks are set off, and the coffin is set down.
- carry the coffin
- the coffin was lowered
- bury the coffin
Yale students met his coffin at the train station.
- Yale students met his coffin at the train station.
- So our urban legend was that we got put in a coffin with a with an owl.
- And what is sitting there but a crystal coffin with someone sleeping inside?
- We walked up to a coffin and it was a open casket, first touch of death.
- And he's been there for years, like generations, and nobody can open the coffin.
- And I remember, you know, when when we buried his body and, and there's that moment where the coffin begins to descend.
- Which further explains the cheap coffin below turn out.
- And now the nails in the coffin that it's not, it's not my thing.
Examples
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The coffin was made of mahogany and adorned with intricate carvings.
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No, it's just a little coffin, really.
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The big man fit in a boy's coffin, and I believed I had nothing left to fear.
Fiction book (1990) -
Yale students met his coffin at the train station.
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By the time the coffin was lowered, there were inches of water in the hole.
Academic text (1991) -
The next time I saw Alicia was in a coffin.
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Little Maybird was in the tiniest coffin I ever saw, lined with pink silk.
Fiction book (1990) -
The low voices and the candles flickering above his coffin are indelibly fixed in Lesa's memory.
Academic text (1990) -
During the ceremony, the mourners gathered around the coffin to pay their respects.
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After the service, they carefully lowered the coffin into the ground.
Synonyms
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5.5
A long box in which a dead body is buried or cremated
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9.9
A stone coffin often decorated with carved pictures and writing used in ancient burials
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5.8
A simple coffin made from pine wood
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Etymology
Coffin comes from an old word kophinos that meant 'basket' or 'box', and over time it came to mean the long box used for a dead body, so a coffin is literally a box for burial.