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Definition: Urn |
UrnNoun1. A large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet. 2. A large pot for making coffee or tea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "urn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
Etymology: Urn \Urn\, noun. [Old English urne, Latin urna; perhaps from urere to burn, and sop called as being made of burnt clay (compare to East): compare to French urne.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | URN Uniform Resource Name (previously Uniform/Universal Resource Number). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of an urn, foretells you will prosper in some respects, and in others disfavor will be apparent. To see broken urns, unhappiness will confront you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Uniform Resource Name is a Uniform Resource Identifier or URI that use the "urn" scheme, and does not connote availability of the identified resource.Uniform Resource Names (URNs) are intended to serve as persistent, location-independent, resource identifiers and are designed to make it easy to map other namespaces (which share the properties of URNs) into URN-space. Therefore, the URN syntax provides a means to encode character data in a form that can be sent in existing protocols, transcribed on most keyboards, etc.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "URN."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
URN | English | Uniform Resource Name | Computer - (WWW, RFC 1737) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Furnace | Noun: furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus, combustion chamber; athanor, hypocaust, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat. |
Interment | Coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn. |
Receptacle | Cistern; (store); vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Urn |
| English words defined with "urn": Cist, coffee urn ♦ Inurn ♦ Mortuary urn ♦ Portland vase ♦ samovar ♦ tea urn ♦ Urcelate, Urnal, Urnful, Urn-shaped. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "urn": Cist Urn ♦ DIRECTOR, FUNERAL, Dying Sayings ♦ manager, funeral home ♦ Pólya's distribution ♦ Stevens-Craig distribution ♦ TLAs ♦ Uniform Resource Name. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | Sign at a crematorium: Urn more. Pay less. (references; author: unknown) | |
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Consumer Goods | |||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Unidentified memorial with figure, possibly a warrior, in niche above panel with inscription and flanking urn. Perspective sketch elevation study. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chateau de Versailles (Versailles, France). Decorative urn on pedestal, probably for a garden setting. Elevation. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Double-handled urn, detail of urn pedestal, and two kylix kraters in the Vatican Palace, probably in the Etruscan Museum, Rome. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Man and woman beside fountain and urn with monkey atop. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cousin Sallie served coffee from the silver urn presented by Thomas Jefferson. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sketch showing detail of Good Administration panel of mural titled Government, located at entrance to the main reading room of the Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, showing nude girl winnowing wheat into urn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hallway, with Oriental urn at right, in home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Trees. Several trees and urn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Questers antique shop. Silver coffee urn. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Joss stick urn" by Michelle Ho Commentary: "A joss stick urn with wish tree in the background." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. |
Robert Pollok | With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | turn out the urn! We must at last cast in our heart |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Steam spurts from the valve of the coffee urn. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Urn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.04% of the time. "Urn" is used about 104 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.04% | 103 | 32,137 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.96% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 104 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "urn": cinerary urn ♦ coffee urn ♦ devil's urn ♦ funeral urn ♦ lachrymal urn ♦ mortuary urn ♦ sepulchral urn ♦ tea urn ♦ urn fungus ♦ urn mosses ♦ winter urn. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "urn": urn-peltae, urn-shaped. | |
Ending with "urn": pelta-urn, tea-urn. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
urn | 659 | fiberglass urn | 17 |
pet urn | 383 | decorative urn | 17 |
cremation urn | 269 | greek urn | 16 |
ode on a grecian urn | 104 | keepsake urn | 15 |
burial urn | 101 | flower urn | 15 |
garden urn | 95 | casket urn | 13 |
funeral urn | 87 | plant urn | 12 |
urn coffee | 72 | cast iron garden urn | 12 |
cremation urn pet | 56 | bronze urn | 12 |
planter urn | 46 | concrete urn | 11 |
wood urn | 41 | urn picture | 10 |
dog urn | 40 | brass urn | 10 |
ash urn | 31 | child urn | 10 |
cigarette urn | 23 | urn fountain | 10 |
grecian ode poet urn | 22 | scattering urn | 10 |
grecian urn | 21 | marble urn | 10 |
cat urn | 19 | urn lamp | 10 |
com microsoft namespace ns o office office prefix schema urn xml | 19 | animal urn | 9 |
memorial urn | 19 | urn jewelry | 9 |
cast iron urn | 19 | wholesale urn | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "urn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | urnë (ossuary), çajnik (kettle, teakettle, teapot). (various references) | |
Arabic | وعاء معدني للماء الساخن, جرة تحفظ رماد الوتى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | урна, самовар (samovar), гроб (feretory, grave, lair, sepulchre, tomb). (various references) | |
Chinese | 骨罈 , 罋 (earthen jar), 缸, 甕 (earthen jar), 瓮 (earthen jar). (various references) | |
Czech | urna, váza (vase), samovar (samovar, tea urn), popelnice (ash bin, bin, can, dustbin). (various references) | |
Farsi | کوزه (Cruse, Jug, Pitcher), گلدان یاظرف محتوی خاکسترمرده , گلدان (Jardiniere, Pot, Vase). (various references) | |
Finnish | uurna. (various references) | |
French | urne. (various references) | |
German | Urne (ballot box, box, casket). (various references) | |
Greek | καφετιέρα (coffee maker, coffee-pot), βάζο (vase), υδρία (crock, jug), λάρνακα (shrine), δοχείο (beaker, container, dispenser, jar, pot, receptacle, vat). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מיחם (kettle, samovar). (various references) | |
Hungarian | urna (vase). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tempayan (crock). (various references) | |
Italian | urna (ossuary). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 甕 (jar, jug, vase, vat). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かめ (earthenware pot, jar, jug, tortoise, turtle, vase, vat), みか (jar, jug, vase, vat). (various references) | |
Manx | crock (chimneypot, jar). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | urna funerária (funeral urn), urna (ballot box, casket, shrine), espécie de samovar (tea-urn). (various references) | |
Romanian | urnã, mormânt (cell, collection, grave, last resting-place, Mold, monument, mould, sepulchre, sepulture, shrine, the tomb, tomb). (various references) | |
Russian | урна (litter box). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | urna (ash-pot). (various references) | |
Spanish | urna. (various references) | |
Swedish | urna (box, container, jug, vessel). (various references) | |
Turkish | semaver (samovar, tea urn), ayaklı vazo, ölü küllerinin saklandığı kap. (various references) | |
Turkmen | sowmak (consume, divert, spend money, urn around). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | урна (can), гробниця (cist, entombment, feretory, reliquary, sepulchre, tomb). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái vạc bình đựng di cốt, cái lư, bình đựng tro ho táng bình h m trà. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cados, urna. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "urn": urnlike, urns. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "urn": adjourn, auburn, bourn, burn, churn, cothurn, curn, downturn, durn, goldurn, heartburn, inturn, inurn, mourn, nocturn, outburn, outturn, overburn, overturn, postburn, prereturn, return, sojourn, spurn, sunburn, taciturn, turn, upturn, windburn, yourn. (additional references) | |
Words containing "urn": adjourned, adjourning, adjournment, adjournments, adjourns, afterburner, afterburners, alburnum, alburnums, auburns, bourne, bournes, bourns, burnable, burnables, burned, burner, burners, burnet, burnets, burnie, burnies, burning, burningly, burnings, burnish, burnished, burnisher, burnishers, burnishes, burnishing, burnishings, burnoose, burnoosed, burnooses, burnous, burnouses, burnout, burnouts, burns, burnsides, burnt, churned, churner, churners, churning, churnings, churns, cothurni, cothurns, cothurnus. (additional references) | |
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"Urn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arn, durn, Euryn, gurn, hrn, hurn, irn, Junr, jurn, kurn, lurn, murn, nru, nurn, orn, orni, orny, qurn, rpn, ruhn, runn, rurn, Uan, Udn, uen, Ueni, ugn, ugr, uhn, Uhro, uin, uinl, uir, uirn, Uln, ulrn, umn, unn, Unrg, uon, upn, ur, ura, uran, urany, urb, urc, uren, urf, urh, uri, urin, urk, url, urm, urna, urne, urnl, urp, urq, urr, urra, urri, urro, urs, urt, uru, urx, urz, usn, utn, uvn, yurn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "urn" (pronounced er"n) |
| 2 | er" n | fern, adjourn, burn, churn, concern, discern, durn, earn, Erne, Hern, Kern, Kirn, learn, return, sauterne, spurn, stern, turn, unconcern, upturn, yearn. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: run. | |
| Words within the letters "n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: burn, curn, durn, knur, nurd, nurl, ruin, rune, rung, runs, runt, turn, urns. | |
+2 letters: bourn, bruin, brunt, buran, burin, burns, burnt, churn, cornu, curns, drunk, durns, enure, furan, grunt, incur, inure, inurn, knaur, knurl, knurs, korun, lunar, mourn, nuder, nurds, nurls, nurse, prune, purin, quern, rerun, rouen, round, ruana, ruing, ruins, rumen, runes, rungs, runic, runny, runts, runty, rutin, spurn, trunk, tuner, turns, ulnar, unarm, unary, unbar, under, unrig, unrip, urban, urine, wrung, yourn. | |
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