Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. coffin, casket(verb)

   box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

2. coffin(verb)

   place into a coffin

   "her body was coffined"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. coffin(Noun)

   An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.

2. coffin(Verb)

   To place in a coffin.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Coffin(noun)

   the case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial

2. Coffin(noun)

   a basket

3. Coffin(noun)

   a casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie

4. Coffin(noun)

   a conical paper bag, used by grocers

5. Coffin(noun)

   the hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone

6. Coffin(verb)

   to inclose in, or as in, a coffin

Origin: [OE., a basket, receptacle, OF. cofin, fr. L. cophinus. See Coffer, n.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Coffin

   A coffin is a funerary box used in the display and containment of dead people, either for burial or cremation. Contemporary North American English makes a distinction between coffin and casket. A coffin is generally understood to denote a funerary box having six sides, while a casket generally denotes a four-sided box.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Coffin

   kof′in, n. the coffer or chest in which a dead body is enclosed.—v.t. to place within a coffin.—n. Coff′in-ship, a ship that is unsound, and likely to prove fatal to those in it.—Drive a nail in one's coffin, to do something tending to hasten death or ruin. [O. Fr. cofin—L. cophinus—Gr. kophinos.]

The Roycroft Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. coffin

   1. L'Envoi, the end of the legend. 2. An ornamental candy-box which no one cares to open. 3. A room without a door or a skylight.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'coffin' in Nouns Frequency: #2167

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of coffin in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of coffin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Jeff Holmstead:

   It's sort of another nail in the coffin of EPA's proposal.

2. Fred Allen:

   I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

3. Maria Sharapova:

   I mean, unless I'm really in my coffin, I'm going to be out there.

4. H.L. Mencken:

   A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

5. Carla Ferrigno:

   I am going public( now) because I am just one more person who puts the nail in his coffin.

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