coffin
noun/ˈkɒfɪn/
/ˈkɔːfɪn/
(especially British English) (North American English usually casket)
Idioms - a box in which a dead body is buried or cremated
- A procession of mourners slowly followed the coffin.
- the flag-draped coffins of soldiers coming home
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- wooden
- flag-draped
- carry
- take
- lower
- …
- in a/the coffin
Word OriginMiddle English (in the general sense ‘box, casket’): from Old French cofin ‘little basket or case’, from Latin cophinus, from Greek kophinos ‘basket’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See coffin in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya nail in somebody’s/something’s coffin
- something that makes the end or failure of an organization, somebody’s plans, etc. more likely to happen
- This latest defeat is another nail in the government's coffin.
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