casket
/ˈkæs.kɪt/US/ˈkæs.kɪt/
casket noun: a little box, e.g. for jewellery.
Noun
casket (plural caskets)
Verb
casket (third-person singular simple present caskets, present participle casketing, simple past and past participle casketed)
- To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
- I have […] casketed my treasure.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
casket meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
casket in Hindi
- casket
- संदूक़चा sandūqcā
casket in Tamil
- பிணப்பெட்டி, சவப்பெட்டி, புதைகலம், பெட்டகம், பேழை, சிறு மிடா
casket in Marathi
- कॅस्केट, कास्केट, कॅस्केटला
casket in Urdu
- casket
- صندوقچہ sandūqca
More languagesFewer languages
- casket in Bengali
- ক্যাসকেট, কাস্কেট
- casket in Malayalam
- ചെപ്പ്, പേടകം, ആഭരണപ്പെട്ടി, ശവമഞ്ചം
- casket in Kannada
- ಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆ, ಸಣ್ಣಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆ, ಸಂಪುಟ, ಕರಂಡ
- casket in Punjabi
- ਡੱਬੀ ḍabbī
- casket in Gujarati
- કાસ્કેટ
- casket in Odia
- କାସ୍କେଟ୍, କ୍ଯ଼ାସ୍କେଟ୍, କ୍ଯ଼ାସକେଟ୍
- casket in Sanskrit
- पुट puṭa
- casket in Assamese
- সঁফুৰা xõphura
- casket in Nepali
- कास्केट, क्यासकेट, क्यास्केट
Examples of casket in a sentence
- This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.
- The maliciousness of this gossip is directly proportional to the distance from the casket and the bereaved.
- Her seven-year-old brother Justin sat on my lap beside her casket.
Forms of casket
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | caskets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | caskets |
| present participle | casketing |
| past participle | casketed |
| past | casketed |
Origin of casket
Probably from Norman cassette. Possibly reformed by analogy with cask, thus analyzable as cask + -et. Doublet of cassette.
Words formed from casket
- casketful
- casketless
- casket magazine
- closed casket
- encasket
- fantasy casket
- recasket
Words that rhyme with casket
Questions about casket
- What does casket mean?
- Casket means a little box, e.g. for jewellery.
- What is casket in Hindi?
- Casket in Hindi is संदूक़चा (sandūqcā). See Casket meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is casket?
- Casket can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce casket?
- Casket is pronounced /ˈkæs.kɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of casket?
- The plural of casket is caskets.
Words near casket in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: casket (page history and authors); संदूक़चा (Hindi) (page history and authors); casket (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); casket (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); صندوقچہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); casket (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); casket (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); casket (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਡੱਬੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); casket (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); casket (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); पुट (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); সঁফুৰা (Assamese) (page history and authors); casket (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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