Sarcophagus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
  • n. The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.
  • n. A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.
  • n. A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A species of stone used among the Greeks for making coffins. It was called by the Romans lapis Assius, from being found at Assos, a city of the Troad.
  • n. A stone coffin, especially one ornamented with sculptures or bearing inscriptions, etc.
  • n. A peculiar wine-cooler forming part of a dining-room sideboard about the end of the eighteenth century: it was a dark mahogany box, lined with lead.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    casket    coffin   
    Variant
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    esophagus   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sarcophagi    obelisk    mausoleum    coffin    aqueduct    tombstone    tomb    headstone    pedestal    casket