casket

English

Etymology

From Norman cassette. Doublet of cassette.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.skɪt/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈkæs.kɪt/

Noun

casket (plural caskets)

A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, part 1, chapter 5
  They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket.
(Britain) An urn.
(Canada, US) A coffin.
(nautical) A gasket.

Translations

little box e.g. for jewelry

Bulgarian: касетка f (kasetka), ковчеже (bg) n (kovčeže)
Catalan: cofret m, escriny m
Finnish: lipas (fi), rasia (fi)
French: coffret (fr) m
Galician: couselo m, causela f
German: Schatulle (de) f, Kästchen (de) n

Greek: κασετίνα (el) f (kasetína), κουτί (el) n (koutí)
Italian: scrigno m, cofanetto (it) m
Portuguese: porta-joias m
Russian: шкату́лка (ru) f (škatúlka), коро́бочка (ru) f (koróbočka)
Spanish: cofrecito m, joyero (es) m

urn

Bulgarian: урна f (urna)
Catalan: urna (ca) f
Finnish: uurna (fi)
German: Urne (de) f
Greek: τεφροδόχος (el) f (tefrodóchos)

Hungarian: urna (hu)
Italian: urna (it) f
Polish: urna (pl) f
Portuguese: urna (pt) f
Russian: у́рна (ru) f (úrna)

coffin — see coffin

Verb

casket (third-person singular simple present caskets, present participle casketing, simple past and past participle casketed)

(poetic, transitive) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 5,
  I have […] casketed my treasure.

Related terms

cask

Anagrams

sacket

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