urn

Meanings

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. Any place of burial; the grave.
5. 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. A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

1. To place in an urn.

1. Initialism of uniform resource name.

Etymology

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