casket

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Norman cassette. Doublet of cassette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæs.kɪt/, /ˈkɑː.skɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkæs.kɪt/

Noun

casket (plural caskets)

1. 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.

2. (British) An urn.
3. (Canada, US) A coffin.
4. (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
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• 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)
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• 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)

1. (poetic, transitive) To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
   • c. 1602 William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, Act II, Scene 5,^[1]

     I have […] casketed my treasure.

Related terms

• cask

Anagrams

• sacket