urn
noun
Origin of urn
Related Words for urn
container, pot, jar, vase, ossuary, pitcher, ewer, capsule, cistern, vessel, samovarExamples from the Web for urn
Contemporary Examples of urn
The boys remains are supposedly contained in an urn in Westminster Abbey.
The Queen was reportedly in "full agreement" with the church authorities that the urn should not be opened.
Browne wrote hauntingly of the resemblance between the urn and the womb.
Urn Burial is a bedside book, a nightstand book, one that begs to be read in a wind-lashed, lightning-struck manor.
Urn Burial is full of quotations fit for long and moody contemplation.
Historical Examples of urn
You might have taken her for some fairy of the springs who had overturned her urn on herself.
FruitfulnessEmile Zola
At nine o'clock at night he visited the "urn" called the "Sepulchre."
The Eternal CityHall Caine
Urn—yes, I cal'lated that was the idea, probably; but who's goin' to buy it?
Mary-'GustaJoseph C. Lincoln
Let him who is of the contrary opinion deposit his vote in urn No. 2.
HellenicaXenophon
It is in shape like a Greek urn, but has with it a flowing quality—and the whiteness.
The Trimming of GoosieJames Hopper