definition of sarcophagus
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Sarcophagus. sÃ¤r-kofâ²a-gus, n. a kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, and so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses: any stone receptacle for a corpse: an 18th-century form of wine-cooler:âpl.