Coffer Definition

kôfər, kŏfər
coffers
noun
coffers
A strongbox.
American Heritage
A chest or strongbox for keeping money or valuables.
Webster's New World
Financial resources; funds.
American Heritage
A treasury; funds.
Webster's New World
A decorative sunken panel as in a vault, dome, etc.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To enclose in a coffer or chest.
Webster's New World
To furnish with decorative sunken panels.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Coffer

Noun

Singular:
coffer
Plural:
coffers

Origin of Coffer

  • Middle English cofre from Old French alteration of cofne from Latin cophinus basket coffin

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

  • From Old French cofre, coffre, from Latin cophinus (“basket”), from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kophinos, “basket”).

    From Wiktionary

Coffer Sentence Examples

  • It is only the great solidity of this coffer which has preserved the contents.

  • This was almost certainly the shock of an earthquake, and the same shock probably caused the split in the stone lid of the coffer itself.

  • Murad, who had returned to Brusa, crossed over to Biga, and sent on Haji Ilbeyi with io,000 men; these fell by night on the Servians and utterly routed them at a place still known as the " Servians' coffer."

  • A cover of one of the vases was found dislodged and lying on the bottom of the stone coffer.

  • Mr Peppe presented the coffer and vases with specimens of the jewelry to the museum at Calcutta where they still are.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOF

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RERFER

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