urn
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2.9
- noun
- /ɜrn/
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recipiente con grifo
- A servant entered with a tray laden with fruit, bread, two goblets, and an urn of wine.
I've just been to get a jug of boiling water out the urn.
- I've just been to get a jug of boiling water out the urn.
Examples
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The staff set up a large urn filled with coffee for the conference attendees.
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On a table near the door were a large coffee urn and Styrofoam cups.
Fiction book (1994) -
And in the back they had water cups and a big, big urn full of water.
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Buster goes to the coffee urn behind the counter and helps himself.
Fiction book (1990) -
There is a silver urn with hot coffee and big jugs of frothy hot milk.
Fiction book (2001) -
A moment's hesitation, and then she turns, grabbing a coffee urn and a cup.
Fiction book (1996) -
I poured myself a cup of coffee from the big silver urn and went over and sat down beside Sophia Bridges.
Fiction book (1998) -
Socorro enters the living room with a tray holding a coffee urn and cup, closely tailed by Duke.
Fiction book (1992) -
Red arrives at a truck with a 10-gallon coffee urn roped to the tailgate.
Fiction book (1993) -
At the party, guests served themselves from the shiny metal urn holding hot tea.
Synonyms
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9.9
A metal pot with a tap for boiling water to make tea, often used in Russia
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3.1
A large metal container that makes and keeps coffee hot for many people
A large metal container that holds and serves hot tea at gatherings
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Etymology
Urn also comes from the Latin urna, a simple 'water jar' for holding liquids, and over time the idea moved to any large container for serving drinks. So an urn today is a big metal vessel with a tap used to make and serve coffee or tea.