a container holding articles, documents, etc, representative of the current age, buried in the earth or in the foundations of a new building for discovery in the future
time capsule in American English
US
a container in which articles, documents, etc. representative of current civilization are encased, to be buried or otherwise preserved for a future age
Examples of 'time capsule' in a sentence
time capsule
Which raises the question, how long can this time capsule of urban art last?