Casket Definition

kăskĭt
caskets
noun
caskets

A coffin.

Wiktionary
A small box or chest, as for valuables.
Webster's New World
A coffin, esp. a costly one.
Webster's New World

An urn.

Wiktionary

(nautical) A gasket.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
To enclose in a case, chest, or coffin.
American Heritage
To put into a casket.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Casket

Noun

Singular:
casket
Plural:
caskets

Origin of Casket

  • Middle English possibly alteration of Old French cassette cassette

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Norman cassette.

    From Wiktionary

Casket Sentence Examples

  • She'd bought her casket months ago and was on a payment plan.

  • He slid a long golden casket from its hiding place.

  • I wanted to shout something like Dracula is out of his casket and has a thirst for my wife's A-negative blood, but I bit my tongue and begged that this was truly an emergency.

  • It is said in the Mani Kambum to have fallen from heaven in a casket (Tibetan, samatog), and, like the last-mentioned work, is only known to us in meagre abstract.

  • A casket is a rectangular box with six sides.

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Words Starting With

CCACAS

Words Ending With

TETKET

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Words Starting With C and Ending With T

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