urn

urn is a 3-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 5 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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. noun. Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
3. noun. 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. noun. A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
5. noun. A tea urn. See under Tea.
6. transitive verb. To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
7. noun. a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
8. noun. a large pot for making coffee or tea

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in urn:

run

Common word forms

urns, urnal, urnful, urning

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