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English

Verb

nurn (third-person singular simple present nurns, present participle nurning, simple past and past participle nurned)

1. Alternative form of norn

Anagrams

• runn

English

Alternative forms

• urne (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n/
• Rhymes: -??(r)n
• Homophone: earn

Noun

urn (plural urns)

1. A vase with a footed base.
   • 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick

     A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, […] found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.

   • His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, / And once more join us in the pious urn.
2. A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
3. A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
4. (figuratively) Any place of burial; the grave.
5. (historical, Roman antiquity) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
6. (botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

Translations

Verb

urn (third-person singular simple present urns, present participle urning, simple past and past participle urned)

1. (transitive) To place in an urn.

Further reading

• urn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Nur, nur, run

Dutch

Alternative forms

• urne

Etymology

Latin urna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rn/
• Hyphenation: urn
• Rhymes: -?rn

Noun

urn f (plural urnen, diminutive urntje n)

1. funerary urn

   Synonym: asvaas

2. any other footed vase

Derived terms

• urnenmuur
• urnenveld