| 释义 |
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cof•fin /ˈkɔfɪn, ˈkɑfɪn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- the box in which the body of a dead person is buried;
casket.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cof•fin (kô′fin, kof′in),USA pronunciation n. - the box or case in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial;
casket. - the part of a horse's foot containing the coffin bone.
- [Print.]
- the bed of a platen press.
- the wooden frame around the bed of an early wooden press.
v.t. - to put or enclose in or as in a coffin.
- Greek kóphinos a kind of basket
- Latin cophinus
- Old North French
- Middle English cofin 1300–50
- Biographical Levi, 1798–1877, U.S. abolitionist leader.
- Biographical Robert P(eter) Tristram, 1892–1955, U.S. poet, essayist, and biographer.
|