urn

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

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urn /ɜːn $ ɜːrn/ noun [countable]  1. MXa decorated container, especially one that is used for holding the ashes of a dead body 瓮；〔尤指〕骨灰瓮2. DFUa metal container that holds a large amount of tea or coffee 〔金属的〕大茶壶；大咖啡壶

Examples from the Corpus

urn• After this solemn function, the body was placed above a side altar in a crystal urn.• The square funerary monument was found to contain a series of stelae with inscriptions and five urns.• Couches and armchairs as big as beds were surrounded by Graeco-Roman statuary and Oriental urns.• The soup urn had a lonely look.• Does that urn fall over and break later in the film?• He turned the open mouth of the urn toward the light and peered in.• The urn rattled brightly Seashells, he thought, remembering his time as a child at the gulf shore.Origin urn (1300-1400) Latin urna

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urn /ɜːn $ ɜːrn/ noun [countable]1. a decorated container, especially one that is used for holding the ashes of a dead body
2. a metal container that holds a large amount of tea or coffee

urnBrE /ɜːn/ 🔊NAmE /ɜːrn/ 🔊 nouna tall decorated container, especially one used for holding the ashes of a dead person 瓮；（尤指）骨灰缸a large metal container with a tap, used for making and/or serving tea or coffee （带龙头的）茶水桶，咖啡桶◆a tea urn茶水桶

URNBrE /ˌjuː ɑːr ˈen/ 🔊NAmE /ˌjuː ɑːr ˈen/ 🔊 abbreviation (computing 计算机) uniform/universal resource name (a standard way of identifying a book, film, journal, computer file, etc.) 统一资源名称（全写为 uniform/universal resource name，一种资源定位方式）  ➡  compare URL, URI