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For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy on my shelf, the presence in my home. A nice book is just as valuable as a decoration as a beautiful porcelain urn - and, let's face it, a hell of a lot more useful.
John Romaniello

Meaning of "urn" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD URN

From Latin ūrna; related to Latin ūrere to burn, urceus pitcher, Greek hurkhē jar.
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PRONUNCIATION OF URN

urn  [ɜːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF URN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Urn is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES URN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Urn

An urn is a vase, ordinarily covered, that usually has a narrowed neck above a footed pedestal. In Classical terms, an urn is a large decorative covered container of wood, metal, pottery, etc. In furniture, it was a large wooden vase-like container which was usually set on a pedestal on either side of a side table. This was the characteristic of Adam designs and also of Hepplewhite's work. Urns were also used as decorative turnings at the cross points of stretchers in 16th and 17th century furniture designs. The urn and the vase were often set on the central pedestal in a "broken" or "swan's" neck pediment.

Definition of urn in the English dictionary

The first definition of urn in the dictionary is a vaselike receptacle or vessel, esp a large bulbous one with a foot. Other definition of urn is a vase used as a receptacle for the ashes of the dead. Urn is also a large vessel, usually of metal, with a tap, used for making and holding tea, coffee, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE URN

urinogenital
urinometer
urinoscopy
urinose
urinous
urite
URL
urman
Urmia
Urmston
urnal
urnfield
urnful
urning
urnlike
urobilin
urobilinogen
urochord
urochordal
urochordate

WORDS THAT END LIKE URN

at every turn
barn
Bayern
born
burn
earn
eastern
horn
learn
modern
northern
on the turn
pattern
porn
prn
return
southern
to a turn
turn
western

Synonyms and antonyms of urn in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «urn» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF URN

Find out the translation of urn to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of urn from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «urn» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

骨灰瓮
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

urna funeraria
570 millions of speakers

English

urn
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कलश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

урны
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

urna
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শবাধার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

urne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gandum
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Urne
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

骨つぼ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유골 단지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Urn
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bình đựng di cốt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கலசத்தால்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कलश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kap
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

urna
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

urna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

урни
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

urnă
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

urn
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

urn
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

urna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

urne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of urn

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «URN»

The term «urn» is very widely used and occupies the 12.655 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «URN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «urn» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «urn» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about urn

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2 QUOTES WITH «URN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word urn.
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John Romaniello
For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy on my shelf, the presence in my home. A nice book is just as valuable as a decoration as a beautiful porcelain urn - and, let's face it, a hell of a lot more useful.
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Wilbur Smith
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «URN»

Discover the use of urn in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to urn and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Urn
'The Urn' is the second in the three-volume series of their uncensored magical exploits.
Alan Chapman, Duncan Barford, 2009
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Polya Urn Models
Examining how urns can help conceptualize discrete probability principles, this book provides information pertinent to the modeling of dynamically evolving systems where particles come and go according to governing rules.
Hosam Mahmoud, 2008
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Urn Burial
A classic 17th-century essay first looks at the idea of burial throughout human history, then explores man's struggles with mortality and the uncertainty of his fate and fame in the living world. Original.
Sir Thomas Browne, 2010
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Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in ...
Breaking new ground in the study of ancient Greek tragedy, Mark Ringer applies the concept of metatheatricality to the work of Sophocl Applies the concept of metatheater, or "theater within theater" to the work of Sophocles.
Mark Ringer, 1998
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Urn Burial: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia’s Victorian mountain country.
Kerry Greenwood, 2012
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Purusha's Urn
Can the infinitesimally small inhabitants of the cosmos, play any role at all in its ultimate fate? This is the adventure of the mind on which Purusha's Urn will take you. No other story has imagined cataclysm of such cosmic proportions.
John R. Johnson, 2008
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Keats: Ode to a Nightingale - A Grecian Urn. A Comparison.
Seminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1 - (A-), University of Stuttgart (Literature Studies), language: English, abstract: Favourite topics of the ode are God, religion, ...
Susanne Wiedenmann, Susanne Kaufmann, 2007
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Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems
O soft embalmer of the still midnight, Shutting, with careful fingers and benign, Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, Enshaded in forgetfulness divine: O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close.
John Keats, 2010
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The Burning Urn
Studies in Tamil poetry.
Kiruṣṇamūrtti Irācā, 1994
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A Course in Mathematical Statistics
is placed into a third urn. Then a ball is drawn at random from the third urn. Compute the probability that the ball is black. 2.2.14 Consider the urns of Exercise 2.2.13. A balanced die is rolled and if an even number appears, a ball, chosen at ...
George G. Roussas, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «URN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term urn is used in the context of the following news items.
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Arrest made in wedding band theft from buried urn
Police charged a Dallas man and former cemetery employee Thursday with digging up an urn with human ashes from a Lincolnton cemetery. Police say a gold ... «Gaston Gazette, Jul 15»
2
Brad Haddin's final mission to win elusive series in England
I'd love to hold the urn up over there. From an Australian cricket point of view, we haven't had success in England for a long time and no matter where you're ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
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Urn taken from cemetery as authorities investigate suspected fake …
An urn was removed from a Minneapolis cemetery by federal authorities, as part of what charges say was an elaborate scheme to fake a man's death and net his ... «Rick Kupchella's BringMeTheNews, Jun 15»
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Partygoer finds urn, snorts ashes - Yahoo7
Jacqui Tierney, 51, threw a party for a group of friends and found out afterwards that one the guests had snorted her mother's remains, cocaine style. «Yahoo7 News, May 15»
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Colorado Springs police seek suspect who broke into car, stole urn
Police in Colorado Springs are searching for this man, who they say broke into a car and stole an urn containing a woman's ashes. (Provided by Colorado ... «The Denver Post, May 15»
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Grieving mother shows her only son's urn to convicted drunk driver
SASKATOON A mother who lost her only child in a drunk driving collision showed the convicted woman her son's urn during her sentencing hearing in a ... «Hamilton Spectator, May 15»
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The Urn, Reimagined As A Dildo Full Of Your Dead Spouse's Ashes
With his new work 21 Grams, Dutch designer Mark Sturkenboom reimagines the urn as an interactive memory box for widows. It doesn't just hold the ashes of a ... «Co.Design, Apr 15»
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Police: Man exhumed deceased father's urn from Batavia cemetery
Stephen Pike is charged with aggravated cemetery desecration. Police say he exhumed the urn and brought it to his home. We're told the urn was retrieved by ... «News 10NBC, Apr 15»
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With cremations up, urn artists look for the beauty in death
9, 2015 photo, Julie Moore puts a finishing touch to a funerary urn at her home studio in Apex, N.C. Cremations in the United States have tripled since 1985, ... «WTOP, Mar 15»
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SF police search for stolen urn containing ashes of victim's mom
San Francisco police are searching for an urn that looks similar to the urn shown in the photo that was stolen from a woman's Potrero Hill home on Feb. 25, 2015 ... «abc7news.com, Mar 15»

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