casket

noun

/ˈkɑːskɪt/

/ˈkæskɪt/

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a small decorated box for holding jewellery or other valuable things, especially in the past
- Inside lay a casket of gold coins.
(North American English)
(also coffin especially in British English)
a box in which a dead body is buried or cremated
- A procession of mourners slowly followed the casket.
Extra Examples
- The casket was lowered into the grave.
- an open-casket funeral
- the flag-draped caskets of soldiers coming home
Topics Life stagesc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- wooden
- closed
- open
- …
verb + casket
- carry
- close
- lower
- …
preposition
- in a/the casket
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Word Originlate Middle English: perhaps an Anglo-Norman French form of Old French cassette, diminutive of casse, chasse, from Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’.

单词	casket
释义	casket noun /ˈkɑːskɪt/ /ˈkæskɪt/ jump to other results a small decorated box for holding jewellery or other valuable things, especially in the past Inside lay a casket of gold coins. (North American English) (also coffin especially in British English) a box in which a dead body is buried or cremated A procession of mourners slowly followed the casket. Extra Examples The casket was lowered into the grave. an open-casket funeral the flag-draped caskets of soldiers coming home Topics Life stagesc2 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective wooden closed open … verb + casket carry close lower … preposition in a/the casket See full entry Word Originlate Middle English: perhaps an Anglo-Norman French form of Old French cassette, diminutive of casse, chasse, from Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’.
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