Coffin Definition

kôfĭn, kŏfĭn
coffins
noun
coffins
The case or box in which a dead body is buried.
Webster's New World
The horny part of a horse's hoof.
Webster's New World
A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
To put into or as if into a coffin.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Coffin

Noun

Singular:
coffin
Plural:
coffins

Origin of Coffin

  • From Middle English cofin, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kophinos, “a basket”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English cofin basket from Old French from Latin cophinus from Greek kophinos

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

Coffin Sentence Examples

  • It was a coffin with bones inside.

  • He lugged the coffin to the new portal and shoved it through.

  • Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms.

  • It is not therefore larceny to steal a corpse, but any removal of the coffin or grave-cloths is otherwise, such remaining the property of the persons who buried the body.

  • Try as he might, the mourning ladies of dreamland wouldn't return to the empty coffin.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOF

Words Ending With

NINFIN

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