Coffin

Definition: Coffin

Coffin

Noun

1. Box in which a corpse is buried or cremated.

Verb

1. Place into a coffin; "her body was coffined".

Date "coffin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Specialty Definition: Coffin

Domain	Definition
Bible	Coffin used in Gen. 50:26 with reference to the burial of Joseph. Here, it means a mummy-chest. The same Hebrew word is rendered "chest" in 2 Kings 12:9, 10. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Building & Civil Engineering	A U-shaped box used in laying tile drains through quicksand. Source: European Union. (references)
Dream Interpretation	This dream is unlucky. You will, if you are a farmer, see your crops blasted and your cattle lean and unhealthy. To business men it means debts whose accumulation they are powerless to avoid. To the young it denotes unhappy unions and death of loved ones. To see your own coffin in a dream, business defeat and domestic sorrow may be expected. To dream of a coffin moving of itself, denotes sickness and marriage in close conjunction. Sorrow and pleasure intermingled. Death may follow this dream, but there will also be good. To see your corpse in a coffin, signifies brave efforts will be crushed in defeat and ignominy. To dream that you find yourself sitting on a coffin in a moving hearse, denotes desperate if not fatal illness for you or some person closely allied to you. Quarrels with the opposite sex is also indicated. You will remorsefully consider your conduct toward a friend. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Coffin A raised crust, like the lid of a basket. Hence Shakespeare speaks of a "custard coffin" (Taming of the Shrew, iv. 3). Mahomet's Coffin ) "Of the paste a coffin will I rear.' Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, v. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Mining	A. Corn. An old, open-mine working, in which the ore is cast up from platform to platform. See also:goffan b. A heavily shielded shipping cask for spent fuel elements. Some coffinsweigh as much as 75 st (68 t). (references)
Nuclear Energy & Physics	Shielded container used to store or transport radioactive material. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Coffin

Synonym: casket (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Coffin

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Interment	Coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn.
Pain	Haunt the memory; weigh on the heart, prey on the heart, weigh on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, prey on the spirits; bring one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; add a nail to one's coffin.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Coffin

English words defined with "coffin": Assian stone ♦ bearer, bier, Burial case ♦ catafalque, Coffin joint, Coffined, Coffining, Coffinless ♦ Encoffin ♦ hearse, Hearsecloth ♦ Inhearse ♦ Kist ♦ Mort cloth, Mort stone ♦ pallbearer, Pumiced ♦ Quittor ♦ sarcophagus, Sidebone ♦ Unplumb ♦ White-foot. (references)

Specialty definitions using "coffin": Cachecope Bell ♦ Envelope, ETERNITY Box ♦ Farinata, FUNERAL ATTENDANT ♦ Keening, Kist-vaen ♦ Long Tom Coffin ♦ Nail in One's Coffin ♦ pall bearer's palsy ♦ sarcophagus, Slate One ♦ undertaker assistant ♦ WASTE-DISPOSAL ATTENDANT. (references)

Etymologies containing "coffin": Coffer. (references)

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Modern Usage: Coffin

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It's a coffin (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Next time we'll use a foolproof coffin. (The Third Man; writing credit: Graham Greene; Alexander Korda) Daddy, how come that coffin is so small? (My Girl; writing credit: Laurice Elehwany. Starring Dan Aykroyd as Harry Sultenfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly DeVoto, Macaulay Culkin as Thomas J. Sennett, and Anna Chlumsky as Vada Sultenfuss.) You fire me, and I'll make more noise than two skeletons making love in a tin coffin, brother. (R.O.T.O.R.; writing credit: Cullen Blaine; Budd Lewis) I'll give you $40 for that coffin. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)
Lyrics	So before they throw me inside my coffin and close it (Cleanin' Out My Closet; performing artist: Eminem)
Movie/TV Titles	Coffin for the Bride (1974) Dr. Blood's Coffin (1961) The Mystery of the Glass Coffin (1912) Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin (1991) L' Affaire coffin (1980)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Coffin

Domain	Title
Books	Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts: Spells, 1-354 (Modern Egyptology Series) (reference) The Black Rock Coffin Makers (reference) The Curse of the Creeping Coffin (Give Yourself Goosebumps , No 8) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Coffin Corner (reference) Coffin Family Newsletter (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Coffin for Head of State/Unknown Soldier (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Blair Witch Episode 2: Coffin Rock 1886 (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Coffin

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Photo Album: Coffin

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Coffin at Mountain Village, Yukon Delta. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.		Dr. Coffin / Drawn by J.M. Jackson. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	A.I. Coffin : Docteur en Médecine / Lith. de Villain. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Soldiers with flag-draped coffin. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Exit! income taxes / Coffin. Credit: Library of Congress.		"Revenue reform" train stopped by "vested interests," "local issues," "trusts," and other poles] / Coffin. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Funeral procession in which numerous bearers carry a coffin decorated with dragons, possibly the emperor's, on long poles, probably in China. Credit: Library of Congress.		"The red spector of revolution" / Coffin. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Lincoln's coffin in the City Hall, Chicago. Credit: Library of Congress.		Production. Blood transfusion bottles. Employed by a local subcontractor for Baxter Laboratories Inc., Glenview, Illinois, Theodore G. Coffin, a former auto mechanic numbers the barrels of the valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by Baxter's for. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Coffin

Author	Quotation
Harold Coffin	Feminine logic is fallacious, shallow, inconsistent, irrelevant, capricious, transparent -- and irrefutable.
Henry Ward Beecher	What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Coffin

Title	Author	Quote
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	I shall nail up the coffin.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	And they would carry the coffin out of the chapel slowly and he would be buried in the little graveyard of the community off the main avenue of limes.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Looks like a coffin on wheels.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Coffin

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Coffin

"Coffin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.77% of the time. "Coffin" is used about 1,208 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)	75.77%	915	7,843
Noun (proper)	24.15%	292	17,014
Noun (common)	0.08%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	1,208	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Coffin

The following table summarizes the usage of "coffin" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Coffin	Last name	4,000	3,168
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Coffin

Expressions using "coffin": add a nail to one's coffin ♦ coffin bearer ♦ coffin bone ♦ coffin joint ♦ coffin nail ♦ Custard coffin ♦ drive nails into smb.'s coffin ♦ Lucretia Coffin Mott ♦ put in a coffin. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "coffin": coffin-bearers, coffin-bodied, coffin-cover, coffin-lid, coffin-like, coffin-maker, coffin-makers, coffin-making, coffin-manufacturers, coffin-nail, coffin-shape, coffin-shaped, coffin-style.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coffin

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
coffin	493	coffin plan	9
birth coffin	103	discount coffin	9
coffin in woman	88	coffin guitar case	8
coffin case	51	build coffin	8
coffin picture	34	car coffin r	8
coffin in lyrics nail	29	coffin gas tank	8
coffin in nail	27	cardboard coffin	8
coffin eminem in lyrics nail	26	the vampire coffin	8
pet coffin	25	coffin halloween	7
levi coffin	24	coffin siris	7
coffin eminem in nail	22	coffin rock	7
jared coffin house	21	coffin purse	6
dj coffin	18	coffin trout	6
coffin siris syndrome	15	bone coffin	6
coffin course golf	12	coffin iron	6
coffin lowry syndrome	11	antique coffin	6
egyptian coffin	11	coffin crazy	6
coffin furniture	11	coffin nail	5
coffin joe	10	pine coffin	5
casket coffin	9	cheater coffin	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Coffin

Language		Translations for "coffin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tabut, qivur (bier, reliquary, shell), arkivol (bier, casket, shell). (various references)

Arabic		‏نعش (bier, brace, brisk, buck up, casket, elevate, exhilarate, freshen, freshen up, ginger, hearse, invigorate, pall, pick up, put smb. on his leg, rally, reanimate, reflate, refresh, revitalize, revive), ‏وضع في تابوت, ‏تابوت (ark of the covenant, casket, pall), ‏الجزء القرني المشكل حافر الفرس. (various references)

Bulgarian		ковчег (ark, bier, box, casket), нещо наподобяващо ковчег, негоден плавателен съд, изоставена шахта. (various references)

Chinese		棺材 . (various references)

Czech		rakev (casket). (various references)

Danish		strålingsskærmet transportbeholder (cask, flask, fuel shipping cask), ligkiste, fundament (element, foundation). (various references)

Dutch		Kist (box, chest), doodkist. (various references)

Esperanto		ĉerko. (various references)

Faeroese		líkkista. (various references)

Farsi		تابوت (Cassette, Chest). (various references)

Finnish		ritilä (air grille, grating, grid, grillage, grille), rima-arina, polttoaineen kuljetussäiliö (cask, flask, fuel shipping cask). (various references)

French		cercueil. (various references)

Frisian		deakiste. (various references)

German		sarg (casket). (various references)

Greek		φέρετρο (casket). (various references)

Hebrew		ארון מתים (casket), �'לוסקמ�" (box, chest, ossuary, sarcophagus). (various references)

Hungarian		koporsó (cascet). (various references)

Indonesian		peti mati. (various references)

Irish		cónra. (various references)

Italian		feretro, cassa sa morto, cassa da morto (wedging), bara (bier, casket, stretcher). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		棺桶 (casket), 棺 (casket). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ねか�" (casket), か�"おけ (casket), か�" (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush), れいきゅう (casket), コフィン . (various references)

Korean		관 (casket, officialdom, pipe, pipes, tube, tubular, Vascular). (various references)

Manx		kishtey keyl, crub (hoof). (various references)

Norwegian		kiste. (various references)

Pig Latin		offincay

Portuguese		caixão (casket, locker), ataúde (bier), féretro, esquife (bier, skiff). (various references)

Romanian		cosciug (shrine), cornet (cornet, trumpet), copitã (buck, hoof), coşciug (shell), vas vechi, sicriu (shell), face inaccesibil, dosi (conceal, dissemble, hide), aşeza în sicriu. (various references)

Russian		гроб (casket, eternity box, hearse). (various references)

Scottish		ciste (box, chest). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mrtvački sanduk. (various references)

Spanish		ataúd (capsule, casket). (various references)

Swedish		likkista, kista (box, chest, coffer). (various references)

Thai		โลงศพ, บรรจุศพในโลงศพ. (various references)

Turkish		tabuta koymak, tabut (casket), radyoaktif madde sızdırmaz kurşun kap, açılmaya elverişsiz gemi. (various references)

Turkmen		tabyt. (various references)

Ukrainian		труна (bier, casket, hearse), класти в труну (casket), домовина (chest). (various references)

Vietnamese		áo quan. (various references)

Welsh		ysgri+n (settle), arch (ark, behest, bidding, petition, request, trunk, waist). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Coffin

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	kophinos. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	arca, arca archa, arcad, arcae, arcam, arcaque, archad, arcis, capulus, cophinus, loculo, loculos, loculum. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	cofin. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Coffin

Language	Date	Source	Genesis Chapter 50, Verse 26
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai eteleuthsen iwshf etwn ekaton deka kai eqayan auton kai eqhkan en th sorw en aiguptw .
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And so Ioseph dyed when he was an hundred and .x. yere olde. And they enbawmed him and put him in a chest in Egipte.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Coffin

Language	Genesis Chapter 50, Verse 26
Croatian	Josip umrije kad mu bijaše sto i deset godina; balzamiraše ga i u Egiptu položiše u lijes.
Dutch	En Jozef stierf, honderd en tien jaren oud zijnde; en zij balsemden hem, en men leide hem in een kist in Egypte.
French	Joseph mourut, âgé de cent dix ans. On l`embauma, et on le mit dans un cercueil en Égypte.
German	Also starb Joseph, da er war hundertundzehn Jahre alt. Und sie salbten ihn und legten ihn in eine Lade in Ägypten.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Kemudian meninggallah Yusuf di Mesir pada usia seratus sepuluh tahun. Mereka merempah-rempahi jenazahnya dan menaruhnya dalam peti mati.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Hata, maka Yusufpun matilah pada seratus sepuluh tahun umurnya, maka dirempah-rempahi oranglah akan dia, lalu ditaruhlah akan dia dalam sebuah keranda di negeri Mesir.
Italian	Poi Giuseppe morì all'et� di centodieci anni; lo imbalsamarono e fu posto in un sarcofago in Egitto.
Maori	Na ka mate a Hohepa i te kotahi rau i te kotahi tekau o ona tau: a ka whakapakokotia e ratou, ka whakatakotoria hoki ki te kawhena i Ihipa.
Norwegian	Og Josef døde, hundre og ti år gammel; og de balsamerte ham og la ham i kiste i Egypten.
Portuguese	Assim morreu José, tendo cento e dez anos de idade; e o embalsamaram e o puseram num caixão no Egito.
Rumanian	Iosif a murit, kn vkrstq de o sutq zece ani. L-au kmbqlsqmat, wi l-au pus kntr`un sicriu kn Egipt
Swedish	Och Josef dog, när han var ett hundra tio år gammal. Och man balsamerade honom, och han lades i en kista, i Egypten.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Coffin

Derivations
	Words beginning with "coffin": coffined, coffing, coffining, coffins. (additional references)
	Words ending with "coffin": uncoffin. (additional references)
	Words containing "coffin": scoffing, uncoffined, uncoffining, uncoffins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Coffin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caffon, Cefin, Cefrino, Cefyn, coeffic, Cofan, cofen, coffain, coffen, coffi, coffie, coffing, coffy, cofi, Cofiant, cofin, Cofino, cofir, cofit, coifen, coiffin, confen, confin, couffin, Goffin, noffink, offan, offin, O'finn. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Coffin"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "coffin" (pronounced kô"fi'n)
3	-f i' n	dauphin, elfin, Griffin, Olefin, puffin, Threadfin, tiffin.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Coffin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-f-f-i-n-o"
	-2 letters: cion, coff, coif, coin, coni, fico, fino, foci, foin, icon, info.
	-3 letters: con, fin, fon, iff, ion, off.
	-4 letters: if, in, no, of, on.
	Words containing the letters "c-f-f-i-n-o"
	+1 letter: chiffon, coffing, coffins.
	+2 letters: chiffons, coffined, coffling, coiffing, scoffing, uncoffin.
	+3 letters: affection, coffering, coffining, officiant, officinal, uncoffins.
	+4 letters: affections, affliction, chiffonade, chiffonier, chromaffin, coiffuring, officering, officiants, uncoffined, unofficial.
	+5 letters: affectation, affectional, affectioned, afficionado, afflictions, chiffonades, chiffoniers, coefficient, conflictful, diffraction, interoffice, nonofficial, officiating, officiation, offscouring, scaffolding, suffocating, suffocation, uncoffining.
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