CASKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does casket mean? 

• CASKET (noun)
  The noun CASKET has 2 senses:

1. box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

2. small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables

  Familiarity information: CASKET used as a noun is rare.

• CASKET (verb)
  The verb CASKET has 1 sense:

1. enclose in a casket

  Familiarity information: CASKET used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

casket; coffin

Hypernyms ("casket" is a kind of...):

box (a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "casket"):

bier (a coffin along with its stand)

sarcophagus (a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions))

Derivation:

casket (enclose in a casket)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

casket; jewel casket

Hypernyms ("casket" is a kind of...):

box (a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid)

Derivation:

casket (enclose in a casket)

• CASKET (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enclose in a casket

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "casket" is one way to...):

close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

casket (small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables)

casket (box in which a corpse is buried or cremated)

 Context examples 

No, said the sun, I have not seen it; but I will give thee a casket—open it when thy hour of need comes.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A pearl necklace I had given you lay untouched in its little casket; your trunks were left corded and locked as they had been prepared for the bridal tour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the dressing-table.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This precious volume, of which I do not recollect one word, I immediately discovered and immediately applied myself to; and I never visited the house afterwards, but I kneeled on a chair, opened the casket where this gem was enshrined, spread my arms over the desk, and fell to devouring the book afresh.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Heaven aid me now!” said she; and she took the casket that the sun had given her, and found that within it lay a dress as dazzling as the sun itself.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

From the bosom of his robe he then produced a casket, opened it and showed magnificent bracelets and earrings; she acted astonishment and admiration; kneeling, he laid the treasure at her feet; incredulity and delight were expressed by her looks and gestures; the stranger fastened the bracelets on her arms and the rings in her ears.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The house-maid alone came here on Saturdays, to wipe from the mirrors and the furniture a week's quiet dust: and Mrs. Reed herself, at far intervals, visited it to review the contents of a certain secret drawer in the wardrobe, where were stored divers parchments, her jewel-casket, and a miniature of her deceased husband; and in those last words lies the secret of the red-room—the spell which kept it so lonely in spite of its grandeur.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)