Coffin vs. Sarcophagus

Coffinnoun

A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.

Coffinnoun

(cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.

Coffinnoun

(obsolete) A basket.

Coffinnoun

(archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

Coffinnoun

(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

Coffinnoun

The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

Coffinverb

(transitive) To place in a coffin.

Coffinnoun

The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

Coffinnoun

A basket.

Coffinnoun

A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

Coffinnoun

A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

Coffinnoun

The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

Coffinverb

To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.

Coffinnoun

box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

Coffinverb

place into a coffin;

Coffinnoun

a long, narrow box, typically of wood, in which a dead body is buried or cremated

Coffinnoun

an old and unsafe aircraft or ship

Coffinverb

put (a dead body) in a coffin

Coffin

A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation. The word took two different paths.

Sarcophagusnoun

A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.

Sarcophagusnoun

(informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

Sarcophagusnoun

(historical) A kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.

Sarcophagusnoun

(historical) An 18th-century form of wine cooler.

Sarcophagusnoun

A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.

Sarcophagusnoun

A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.

Sarcophagusnoun

A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.

Sarcophagusnoun

a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)

Sarcophagus

A sarcophagus (plural sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a box-like funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried. The word comes from the Greek σάρξ sarx meaning , and φαγεῖν phagein meaning hence sarcophagus means , from the phrase lithos sarkophagos (λίθος σαρκοφάγος), .