coffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒfɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɔfɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑfɪn/
homophone: coughing
rhymes: -ɒfɪn
rhymes: -ɒfən
Forms: form: coffins
form: cophin
form: coffyn
Etymology: From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer.
Senses: examples: text: […] Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards, / Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, / Night and day journeys a coffin.
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
text: 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the sight of that little boy, his head bent, not daring to look up at his mother’s coffin in front of him was, and remains, genuinely heartbreaking.
text: Plans to carry the Queen's coffin from Edinburgh to London by rail were scrapped in favour of travel in a Royal Air Force cargo aircraft.
ref: 2022 September 21, “Network News: Decision not to use Royal Train sharply divides opinion”, in RAIL, number 966, page 8:
synonyms: word: casket
word: pine box
glosses: A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The eighth Lenormand card.
examples: text: Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: Take your mallard and put him into the iuyce of the sayde Onyons, and season him with pepper, and salte, cloues and mace, then put your Mallard into the coffin with the saide iuyce of the onyons.
ref: 1596, The Good Huswife's Jewell:
glosses: A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
examples: text: The smoke of this Hearbe, which they receaue at the mouth through certaine coffins, suche as the Grocers do vse to put in their Spices.
ref: 1577, John Frampton, Joyful News out of the New Found World:
glosses: A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
glosses: The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
glosses: A storage container for nuclear waste.
glosses: A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.
Synonyms: sense: box for a dead body
word: wooden coat
sense: box for a dead body
word: wooden kimono
sense: box for a dead body
word: wooden overcoat
sense: box for a dead body
word: wooden surtout
sense: box for a dead body
word: pine box
Hyponyms: sense: box for a dead body
english: upholstered
translation: upholstered
word: casket
Derived terms: another nail in someone's coffin
another nail in the coffin
coffin birth
coffin bone
coffin corner
coffin dodger
coffin fly
coffinful
coffin handle
coffinless
coffinlike
coffinmaker
coffinmaking
coffin nail
coffin ride
coffin rider
coffin ship
coffin tack
drive a nail in someone's coffin
encoffin
encoffiner
encoffinment
final nail in the coffin
flying coffin
hanging coffin
Job's Coffin
last nail in the coffin
nail in one's coffin
recoffin
safety coffin
treetrunk coffin
uncoffin
Y-shaped coffin