• (British) IPA: /ɜːn/
• (America) IPA: /ɝn/

urn (plural urns)

1. A vase with a footed base.

   • A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.

   • His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, / And once more join us in the pious urn.

2. A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
3. A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
4. (figurative) Any place of burial; the grave.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, / Tombless, with no remembrance over them.

5. (historical, Roman antiquity) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
6. (botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

• French: urne
• German: Urne
• Italian: urna
• Portuguese: urna
• Russian: у́рна
• Spanish: urna

• Russian: ча́йник

• French: urne
• German: Urne
• Portuguese: urna
• Russian: у́рна
• Spanish: urna

urn (urns, present participle urning; past and past participle urned)

1. (transitive) To place in an urn.

urn (plural urns)

1. (Internet) Initialism of uniform resource name