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urn

See also: URN, urṇ, and urn.

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Abbreviation of English Uruangnirin.

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urn

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Uruangnirin.

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English

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Etymology

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

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urn (plural urns)

  1. A vase with a footed base.
  2. A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
  3. A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
  4. (figurative) 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.

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botany: hollow body for mosses' spores

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

  1. (transitive) To place in an urn.

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Etymology

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From Latin urna.

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urn f (plural urnen, diminutive urntje n)

  1. funerary urn
    Synonym: asvaas
  2. any other footed vase

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  • IPA(key): /ˈurn/
  • Rhymes: -urn
  • Syllabification: urn

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urn f

  1. genitive plural of urna

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