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Sarcophagus
Meaning
Noun
●
In Burial:
A
stone
coffin
, often with its
exterior
inscribed
, or
decorated
with sculpture.
●
In Home appliances:
The
cement
and
steel
structure that
encases
the
destroyed
nuclear reactor
at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
●
A type of
wine cooler
(“a
piece
of
equipment
used to keep
wine
chilled
”)
shaped
like a
sarcophagus
(sense 1).
●
In Ancient Greece:
A
kind of
limestone
used by the Ancient Greeks for
coffins
, so called because it was
thought
to
consume
the
flesh
of corpses.
Verb
●
To
enclose
(a
corpse
, etc.) in a
sarcophagus
(noun
sense
1).
Sourced from
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Origin
sarcophagus
English
sarcophage
French
sarcophagus
Latin
σαρκοφάγος
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
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