Definitions for URN
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. urnnoun

   a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet

2. urnnoun

   a large pot for making coffee or tea

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. urnnoun

   a vase with a footed base

2. urnnoun

   a metal vessel for serving tea or coffee

3. urnnoun

   a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person

4. Etymology: From urna.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Urnnoun

   Etymology: urne, Fr. urna, Lat.

   1. Any vessel, of which the mouth is narrower than the body.

   Minos, the strict inquisitor,
   Lives, and crimes, with his assessors, hears;
   Round, in his urn, the blended balls he rolls;
   Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. Dryden.

   2. A water pot; particularly that in the sign of Aquarius.

   The fish oppose the maid, the watry urn
   With adverse fires sees raging Leo burn. Thomas Creech.

   3. The vessel in which the remains of burnt bodies were put.

   Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,
   Tombless, with no remembrance over them. William Shakespeare.

   A rustick digging in the ground by Padua, found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn; and in this lesser, a lamp clearly burning. John Wilkins.

   His scatter’d limbs with my dead body burn;
   And once more join us in the pious urn. Dryden.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. urn

   A Uniform Resource Name (URN) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that uses the urn scheme. URNs are globally unique persistent identifiers assigned within defined namespaces so they will be available for a long period of time, even after the resource which they identify ceases to exist or becomes unavailable. URNs cannot be used to directly locate an item and need not be resolvable, as they are simply templates that another parser may use to find an item.

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1. urn

   An urn is a type of vase, often with a lid, that usually has a somewhat narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal. It is typically used to store ashes of a deceased person after cremation in many cultures. In a different context, it also refers to a large, often decorative container from which drinks, especially tea or coffee, are served. In probability or statistics, an urn is used as a concept where objects of real interest (like balls) are drawn or discarded.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Urnnoun

   a vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn

2. Urnnoun

   fig.: Any place of burial; the grave

3. Urnnoun

   a measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius

4. Urnnoun

   a hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca

5. Urnnoun

   a tea urn. See under Tea

6. Urnverb

   to inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Urn

   An urn is a vase, ordinarily covered, that usually has a narrowed neck above a footed pedestal. "Knife urns" placed on pedestals flanking a dining-room sideboard were an English innovation for high-style dining rooms of the late 1760s. They went out of fashion in the following decade, in favour of knife boxes that were placed on the sideboard. In Classical terms, an urn is a large decorative covered container of wood, metal, pottery, etc. In furniture, it was a large wooden vase-like container which was usually set on a pedestal on either side of a side table. This was the characteristic of Adam designs and also of Hepplewhite's work. Urns were also used as decorative turnings at the cross points of stretchers in 16th and 17th century furniture designs. The urn and the vase were often set on the central pedestal in a "broken" or "swan's" neck pediment.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Urn

   urn, n. a rounded or angular vase having a foot, a water vessel, an electoral vase, a tea-urn, &c.: a vessel in which the ashes of the dead were anciently deposited, hence the grave.—v.t. to enclose in an urn.—adj. Urn′al.—n. Urn′ful, as much as an urn will hold.—adj. Urn′-shaped, having the shape of an urn. [L. urna, an urn—urĕre, to burn.]

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1. URN

   What does URN stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the URN acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Pot
   • Vase

Anagrams for URN »

1. run

How to pronounce URN?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say URN in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of URN in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of URN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of URN in a Sentence

1. Former Green Beret Stephen Florich:

   Because he was in The Louisiana National Guard does not mean that my family should have to cremate and put his ashes in an urn to put him in a smaller space.

2. Pegy Lowery:

   For us, it’s been really hard, all I have now is pictures, an urn sitting on the mantle.

3. William Faulkner:

   If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

4. Charles Sizemore:

   An urn is certainly cheaper than a burial plot.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=URN
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Urn
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=URN
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urn
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/URN
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=URN
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=URN