time capsule
noun
1
: a container holding historical records or objects representative of current culture that is deposited (as in a cornerstone) for preservation until discovery by some future age
2
: something resembling a time capsule
sunken vessels are archaeological time capsules
Philip Trupp
Philip Trupp
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The book is a spiritual time capsule of the post-Christian soul in crisis, a lamentation in the key of Greta Thunberg, with undertones of Carl Jung. Dominic Green, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022 It’s a digital time capsule, filled with a stranger’s photos and text messages. Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2022 The father of contemporary black and white photography has given Madagascar and the rest of the world a great treasure in these works of art: a time capsule of this unique country and its cultures in important decades in its history. Joella Ranaivoson, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2022 Today, 97 Orchard Street, the original home of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (which also operates in another building on the block), stands as a time capsule of the immigrant experience in New York City. Ethan Fuirst, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2022 Filled with 12 prompts, this letter book acts as a paper time capsule. Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 4 Aug. 2022 Their findings, published this week in Royal Society Open Science, show baleen’s potential as an environmental time capsule. Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021 The Newmans sold the home in 2011 to retail and residential architectural designer Craig Wollen of Turn Design, who refurbished and updated the coveted time capsule for his family. oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2022 McLean then seemed to suggest that state officials had a nefarious plan for using a possible photograph of President Abraham Lincoln in his casket that was rumored to have been placed in the Lee time capsule but was not actually found. Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 15 July 2022 See More
Dominic Green, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022 It’s a digital time capsule, filled with a stranger’s photos and text messages. Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2022 The father of contemporary black and white photography has given Madagascar and the rest of the world a great treasure in these works of art: a time capsule of this unique country and its cultures in important decades in its history. Joella Ranaivoson, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2022 Today, 97 Orchard Street, the original home of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (which also operates in another building on the block), stands as a time capsule of the immigrant experience in New York City. Ethan Fuirst, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2022 Filled with 12 prompts, this letter book acts as a paper time capsule. Jamie Kravitz, Woman's Day, 4 Aug. 2022 Their findings, published this week in Royal Society Open Science, show baleen’s potential as an environmental time capsule. Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021 The Newmans sold the home in 2011 to retail and residential architectural designer Craig Wollen of Turn Design, who refurbished and updated the coveted time capsule for his family. oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2022 McLean then seemed to suggest that state officials had a nefarious plan for using a possible photograph of President Abraham Lincoln in his casket that was rumored to have been placed in the Lee time capsule but was not actually found. Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 15 July 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1938, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
time capsule
noun
: a container holding records or objects representative of a current culture that is put in a safe place for discovery in the future