Definitions for urn

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Spelling: [urn]
IPA: /ɜrn/

Urn is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in urn (nru).

Definitions for urn

noun

  1. a large or decorative vase, especially one with an ornamental foot or pedestal.
  2. a vase for holding the ashes of the cremated dead.
  3. a large metal container with a spigot, used for making or serving tea or coffee in quantity.
  4. Botany. the spore-bearing part of the capsule of a moss, between lid and seta.

Origin of urn

1325-75; Middle English urne Latin urna earthen vessel for ashes, water, etc., akin to urceus pitcher, Greek hýrchē jar

Examples for urn

It is in shape like a Greek urn, but has with it a flowing quality—and the whiteness.

urn Burial is a bedside book, a nightstand book, one that begs to be read in a wind-lashed, lightning-struck manor.

Let him who is of the contrary opinion deposit his vote in urn No. 2.

You might have taken her for some fairy of the springs who had overturned her urn on herself.

Browne wrote hauntingly of the resemblance between the urn and the womb.

urn—yes, I cal'lated that was the idea, probably; but who's goin' to buy it?

The Queen was reportedly in "full agreement" with the church authorities that the urn should not be opened.

At nine o'clock at night he visited the "urn" called the "Sepulchre."

The boys remains are supposedly contained in an urn in Westminster Abbey.

urn Burial is full of quotations fit for long and moody contemplation.

Word Value for urn
Scrable

3

Words with friends

5

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