English Dictionary

urn

IPA（発音記号）

/ɜːn/

名詞

比喩的用法 ラテン文字 歴史的

A vase with a footed base. / A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee. / A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person. / (figuratively) Any place of burial; the grave.

日本語の意味

脚のある台座付きの花瓶、または容器。 / 茶やコーヒーを提供するための金属製の容器。 / 火葬後の遺骨を納めるための容器。 / 比喩的に、墓や埋葬場所を指す。

She placed the porcelain urn carefully on the shelf, wary of its fragile, gilded handles.

彼女は磁器の脚付き花瓶を棚の上に慎重に置き、その壊れやすい金箔の取っ手に気を配った。

意味（1）

A vase with a footed base.

A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, […] found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.

意味（2）

A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.

意味（3）

A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.

意味（4）

(figuratively) Any place of burial; the grave.

Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, / Tombless, with no remembrance over them.

意味（5）

(historical, Roman antiquity) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.

意味（6）

(botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

urns （ plural ）