Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A coffin.
- n. A small case or chest, as for jewels and other valuables.
- v. To enclose in a case, chest, or coffin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See casquet.
- n. A small chest or box for jewels or other small articles.
- n. A fanciful name applied to a book consisting of a number of selected literary or musical pieces: as, a casket of literary gems.
- n. A coffin, especially a costly one: used as a softened synonym of coffin.
- n. A stalk or stem.
- To put into a little chest.
- n. Same as gasket.
Wiktionary
- n. A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
- n. An urn.
- n. A coffin.
- v. poetic, transitive To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.
- n. United States A kind of burial case.
- n. poetic, poetic Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed.
- n. poetic, poetic The body.
- n. poetic, poetic The tomb.
- n. poetic A book of selections.
- n. (Naut.) A gasket. See gasket.
- v. Poetic To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables
- n. box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
- v. enclose in a casket
Etymologies
- From Norman cassette. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, possibly alteration of Old French cassette; see cassette. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We should be fairly certain that the person in the casket is a MAN not a boy or a woman.”
“I want your demise to occur in a sloppy sort of way that forces a closed casket funeral -- and the casket is the size of an Altoids tin because that's all it took to hold what the cops scraped off the walls.”
“After leaving the Capitol, the casket is to proceed to Arlington National Cemetery, where Kennedy will be buried, 95 feet south of the grave of his brother Sen. Robert Kennedy, which is in turn just steps away from the burial site of his brother, former President John F. Kennedy.”
“The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbors lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility.”
“Funeral: Yeardley Love's casket is taken into a Baltimore church.”
“The man in the casket is jack. the other jack is a clone created by jacob who is secretly a steam engine. in the very frist episode, we see lots of naked girls kissing eachother.”
The Tail Section » Episode 4.1 “The Beginning of the End” Afterthoughts
“The Big Bopper's casket is to be auction on eBay in the next few weeks.”
“The metal casket is apparently in decent condition with just a bit of rust and water damage.”
“I watch, as men load a tiny, white satin casket with tassels into a black, shiny hearse.”
“The casket is listed as are a bunch of other cool, cutting edge gadgets.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘casket’.
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Wordnik Spam Inquiries
We get a lot of spam emails at Wordnik that fit this pattern: "Mr Bob Wilson here and i will like to know if you do have X for sale". The words on this list represent a subset of such requested items.
burnisher, shaper vise, salt spreader, soil pulveriser, bible, flutes, baffles, crucifix cross, proofer, gazebo, real bubble wrap, roller tray and 206 more...
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Bracket and such
bracket, bucket, cricket, docket, jacket, locket, packet, picket, racket, rocket, socket, sprocket and 17 more...
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No Dearth of Deadly Designations
catafalque, cenotaph, necropolis, sepulcher, sarcophagus, mausoleum, reliquary, ossuary, necrosis, cadaver, cadaverous, pyre and 103 more...
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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sputnik
canoodle, span, hasten, discombobulate, sputnik, clod, encrusted, spit-shine, zeitgeist, landslide, laid, cherish and 350 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Containers
Beautiful nouns that hold other nouns.
phial, vial, flagon, chalice, demijohn, ampoule, cauldron, carafe, ewer, urn, amphora, pitcher and 9 more...
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appointments
armoire, secretaire, commode, bureau, dresser, curtains, carpet, rug, table, chair, mirror, bench and 75 more...
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mortal remains
crematorium, funeral, columbarium, mausoleum, cemetery, sepulchre, mortuary, mortician, eulogy, exsanguination, cortege, crypt and 53 more...
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hideout
places to hide
bunker, cave, safe house, shelter, attic, tunnel, closet, refrigerator, basement, tree, trunk, chamber and 47 more...
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