coffin en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /ˈkɑfɪn/ (cot-caught-merger)
- /ˈkɔfɪn/ (US)
- /ˈkɒfɪn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer. Displaced native Old English þrūh.
Meanings
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A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
Plans to carry the Queen's coffin from Edinburgh to London by rail were scrapped in favour of travel in a Royal Air Force cargo aircraft.
2022 September 21, “Network News: Decision not to use Royal Train sharply divides opinion”, in RAIL, number 966, page 8:[…] Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards, / Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, / Night and day journeys a coffin.
1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the sight of that little boy, his head bent, not daring to look up at his mother’s coffin in front of him was, and remains, genuinely heartbreaking.
- The eighth Lenormand card.
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(archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:Take your mallard and put him into the iuyce of the sayde Onyons, and season him with pepper, and salte, cloues and mace, then put your Mallard into the coffin with the saide iuyce of the onyons.
1596, The Good Huswife's Jewell:
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(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
The smoke of this Hearbe, which they receaue at the mouth through certaine coffins, suche as the Grocers do vse to put in their Spices.
1577, John Frampton, Joyful News out of the New Found World:
- The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
- A storage container for nuclear waste.
- A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| coffyn | alternative, archaic | lexicographic | |
| cophin | alternative, archaic | lexicographic | |
| coffins | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
coffin ride · final nail in the coffin · nail in one's coffin · coffin dodger · coffinlike · coffin rider · coffinful · flying coffin · safety coffin · coffin bone · coffinmaking · coffin fly · another nail in the coffin · uncoffin · recoffin · coffin corner · coffin door · encoffin · coffinless · treetrunk coffin · hanging coffin · last nail in the coffin · Job's Coffin · coffin birth · coffin handle · coffin ship · another nail in someone's coffin · encoffiner · coffin nail · coffin window · coffinmaker · Y-shaped coffin · fantasy coffin · coffin tack · encoffinment · drive a nail in someone's coffin
Hyponyms
casket (box for a dead body)
Synonyms
wooden overcoat (box for a dead body) · pine box (box for a dead body) · casket · pine box · wooden coat (box for a dead body) · wooden kimono (box for a dead body) · wooden surtout (box for a dead body)
Translations (218)
et kirst (box in which a dead person is buried) · tg тобут (box in which a dead person is buried) · ur تابُوت (box in which a dead person is buried) · arz تابوت (box in which a dead person is buried) · gd ciste (box in which a dead person is buried) · da kiste (box in which a dead person is buried) · ltg škiersts (box in which a dead person is buried) · mnc ᡥᠣᠪᠣ (box in which a dead person is buried) · id peti jenazah (box in which a dead person is buried) · sh lijȇs (box in which a dead person is buried) · cjy 棺材 (box in which a dead person is buried) · cmn 棺 (box in which a dead person is buried) · pon kohpwa (box in which a dead person is buried) · lo ໂຮງ (box in which a dead person is buried) · mk ковчег (box in which a dead person is buried) · hak 棺材 (box in which a dead person is buried) · hy դագաղ (box in which a dead person is buried) · sdn baulu (box in which a dead person is buried) · ka კუბო (box in which a dead person is buried) · mr शवपेटिका (box in which a dead person is buried) · ang ċist (box in which a dead person is buried) · gcf simòsoplanch (box in which a dead person is buried) · izh ruumeenpuut (box in which a dead person is buried) · pl trumna (box in which a dead person is buried) · sq qivur (box in which a dead person is buried) · be гроб (box in which a dead person is buried) · gd ciste-mhairbhe (box in which a dead person is buried) · nb kiste (box in which a dead person is buried) · pa ਕਫ਼ਨ (box in which a dead person is buried) · af kis (box in which a dead person is buried) · vi hòm (box in which a dead person is buried) · fr cercueil (box in which a dead person is buried) · es caja mortuoria (box in which a dead person is buried) · hu koporsó (box in which a dead person is buried) · ang þrūh (box in which a dead person is buried) · tt табут (box in which a dead person is buried) · mr शवपेटी (box in which a dead person is buried) · wa waxhea (box in which a dead person is buried) · fi arkku (box in which a dead person is buried) · kaa 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dead person is buried) · tk tabyt (box in which a dead person is buried) · alt межик (box in which a dead person is buried) · gan 棺材 (box in which a dead person is buried) · gcf sèkèy (box in which a dead person is buried) · be дамаві́на (box in which a dead person is buried) · fo líkkista (box in which a dead person is buried) · uz tobut (box in which a dead person is buried) · vo sark (box in which a dead person is buried) · es cajón (box in which a dead person is buried) · tl kabaong (box in which a dead person is buried) · it feretro (box in which a dead person is buried) · es urna (box in which a dead person is buried) · sdc littéra (box in which a dead person is buried) · sh lȇs (box in which a dead person is buried) · kw logel (box in which a dead person is buried) · sh лије̑с (box in which a dead person is buried) · kk табыт (box in which a dead person is buried) · mn авс (box in which a dead person is buried) · nb likkiste (box in which a dead person is buried) · la arca (box in which a dead person is buried) · lt karstas (box in which a dead person is buried) · gl féretro (box in which a dead person is buried) · th โลง (box in which a dead person is buried) · th โลงศพ (box in which a dead person is buried) · my ခေါင်း (box in which a dead person is buried) · crh tabut (box in which a dead person is buried) · ja 棺 (box in which a dead person is buried) · es ataúd (box in which a dead person is buried) · oc taüc (box in which a dead person is buried) · la capulus (box in which a dead person is buried) · tl ataul (box in which a dead person is buried) · rsk труна (box in which a dead person is buried) · gv kishtey keyl (box in which a dead person is buried) · ilo lungon (box in which a dead person is buried) · nrf côffre (box in which a dead person is buried) · grc λάρναξ (box in which a dead person is buried) · oc ataüc (box in which a dead person is buried) · ota تابوت (box in which a dead person is buried) · yi אָרון (box in which a dead person is buried) · et puusärk (box in which a dead person is buried) · gl cadaleito (box in which a dead person is buried) · gu પેટી (box in which a dead person is buried) · ab акәы́ба (box in which a dead person is buried) · am የሬሳ ሣጥን (box in which a dead person is buried) · az tabut (box in which a dead person is buried) · ast tumba (box in which a dead person is buried) · dsb kašć (box in which a dead person is buried) · cy arch (box in which a dead person is buried) · ps تابوت (box in which a dead person is buried) · grc σορός (box in which a dead person is buried) · dng гуанцэ (box in which a dead person is buried) · pa ਤਾਬੂਤ (box in which a dead person is buried) · eo ĉerko (box in which a dead person is buried) · es féretro (box in which a dead person is buried) · id peti mayat (box in which a dead person is buried) · lo ຫີບສົບ (box in which a dead person is buried) · sh kòvčeg (box in which a dead person is buried) · ml ശവപ്പെട്ടി (box in which a dead person is buried) · bg ковче́г (box in which a dead person is buried) · mt tebut (box in which a dead person is buried) · sh ле̑с (box in which a dead person is buried) · th หีบศพ (box in which a dead person is buried) · sc baullu (box in which a dead person is buried) · yue 棺材 (box in which a dead person is buried) · ckb دارەتەرم (box in which a dead person is buried) · ca taüt (box in which a dead person is buried) · pt ataúde (box in which a dead person is buried) · ro sicriu (box in which a dead person is buried) · hsn 棺木 (box in which a dead person is buried) · nap tauto (box in which a dead person is buried) · da ligkiste (box in which a dead person is buried) · nn kiste (box in which a dead person is buried) · ca fèretre (box in which a dead person is buried) · ast caxa (box in which a dead person is buried) · bn শবাধার (box in which a dead person is buried) · nl kist (box in which a dead person is buried) · ba табут (box in which a dead person is buried) · wuu 棺材 (box in which a dead person is buried) · sl krsta (box in which a dead person is buried) · kmr tabût (box in which a dead person is buried) · rm vaschè (box in which a dead person is buried) · he גְּלוֹסְקֵמָה (box in which a dead person is buried) · vi săng (box in which a dead person is buried) · km មឈូស (box in which a dead person is buried) · ceb lungon (box in which a dead person is buried) · pam kabaung (box in which a dead person is buried) · gu કોફિન (box in which a dead person is buried) · de Sarg (box in which a dead person is buried) · gl ataúde (box in which a dead person is buried) · szl truła (box in which a dead person is buried) · sc lettèra (box in which a dead person is buried) · ast andes (San Ciprián de Sanabria) (box in which a dead person is buried) · ady пхъэмбай (box in which a dead person is buried) · pt caixão (box in which a dead person is buried) · hi ताबूत (box in which a dead person is buried) · unm sikaxkw (box in which a dead person is buried) · nb gravkiste (box in which a dead person is buried) · ar تَابُوت (box in which a dead person is buried) · id peti mati (box in which a dead person is buried) · ht sèkèy (box in which a dead person is buried) · sv kista (box in which a dead person is buried) · zza tabut (box in which a dead person is buried) · uk гріб (box in which a dead person is buried) · gl caixa (box in which a dead person is buried) · bo རོ་སྒམ (box in which a dead person is buried) · el φέρετρο (box in which a dead person is buried) · ast urna (Tox) (box in which a dead person is buried) · gv coavin (box in which a dead person is buried) · sq arkivol (box in which a dead person is buried) · sdc bauri (box in which a dead person is buried) · lb Lued (box in which a dead person is buried) · la loculus (box in which a dead person is buried) · liv zārka (box in which a dead person is buried) · ru гроб (box in which a dead person is buried) · gd ciste-laighe (box in which a dead person is buried) · lv zārks (box in which a dead person is buried) · egy q:r-s-qs-w-Q6 (box in which a dead person is buried) · ltg grobs (box in which a dead person is buried) · pox lodo (box in which a dead person is buried) · lo ໂລງ (box in which a dead person is buried) · ro coșciug (box in which a dead person is buried) · id keranda (box in which a dead person is buried) · pac turang (box in which a dead person is buried) · cdo 棺材 (box in which a dead person is buried) · it bara (box in which a dead person is buried) · ckv kapangan (box in which a dead person is buried) · lb Doudelued (box in which a dead person is buried) · nn likkiste (box in which a dead person is buried) · it cassa da morto (box in which a dead person is buried) · esu qunguq (box in which a dead person is buried) · mr ताबूत (box in which a dead person is buried) · be дамо́ўка (box in which a dead person is buried) · pdt Soakj (box in which a dead person is buried) · uk домови́на (box in which a dead person is buried) · izh groba (box in which a dead person is buried) · is líkkista (box in which a dead person is buried) · ga cónra (box in which a dead person is buried) · io sarko (box in which a dead person is buried) · kmr darbest (box in which a dead person is buried) · nan-hbl 棺柴 (box in which a dead person is buried) · mi kāwhena (box in which a dead person is buried) · vi quan tài (box in which a dead person is buried) · ja 棺桶 (box in which a dead person is buried) · af doodskis (box in which a dead person is buried) · fa-ira تابوت (box in which a dead person is buried) · uk труна́ (box in which a dead person is buried) · oc caissa (box in which a dead person is buried) · nl doodskist (box in which a dead person is buried) · cmn 棺材 (box in which a dead person is buried) · cs rakev (box in which a dead person is buried) · sgs grabs (box in which a dead person is buried) · sk rakva (box in which a dead person is buried) · ru домови́на (box in which a dead person is buried) · ta சவப்பெட்டி (box in which a dead person is buried) · sw jeneza (box in which a dead person is buried) · sc lèttia (box in which a dead person is buried) · fo kista (box in which a dead person is buried) · fi ruumisarkku (box in which a dead person is buried) · ko 관 (box in which a dead person is buried)