English Explanatory Dictionary

coffin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
  2. The eighth Lenormand card.
  3. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
  4. A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
  5. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
  6. A storage container for nuclear waste.
  7. 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.
verb
  1. To place in a coffin.
noun
  1. An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
  2. A deep ditch.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɒfɪn/ /ˈkɔfɪn/ /ˈkɑfɪn/ en-us-coffin.ogg

Word forms

coffin coffins cophin coffyn coffining coffined coffan coffen goffin goffan goffen Coffing

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.

Synonyms

casket pine box wooden coat wooden kimono wooden overcoat wooden surtout encoffin

Derived words

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 coffin window 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 Coffin-Lowry syndrome Coffin-Siris syndrome
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