Casket

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  • noun. A coffin.
  • noun. A small case or chest, as for jewels and other valuables.
  • transitive verb. To enclose in a case, chest, or coffin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as gasket.
  • To put into a little chest.
  • noun. See casquet.
  • noun. A small chest or box for jewels or other small articles.
  • noun. A fanciful name applied to a book consisting of a number of selected literary or musical pieces: as, a casket of literary gems.
  • noun. A coffin, especially a costly one: used as a softened synonym of coffin.
  • noun. A stalk or stem.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A gasket. See gasket.
  • noun. A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.
  • noun. A kind of burial case.
  • noun. Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed.
  • noun. The body.
  • noun. The tomb.
  • noun. A book of selections.
  • transitive verb. To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
  • noun. An urn.
  • noun. A coffin.
  • verb. To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables
  • noun. box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
  • verb. enclose in a casket
  • Word Usage
    "We should be fairly certain that the person in the casket is a MAN not a boy or a woman."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    box  close in  enclose  inclose  shut in  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    basket  gasket  mascot  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bottle up  box  box  box in  box up  
    variant
    gasket