TOP

Definition of casket noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

casket

noun
 
/ˈkɑːskɪt/
 
/ˈkæskɪt/
jump to other results
  1. a small decorated box for holding jewellery or other valuable things, especially in the past
    • Inside lay a casket of gold coins.
  2. (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
    3. 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’.
See casket in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
Check pronunciation: casket

Other results

All matches

Nearby words

trait
noun
 
 
From the Word list
Oxford 5000
B2
Oxford Learner's Dictionaries Word of the Day