sarcophagus
IPA: sɑrkˈɑfʌgʌs
noun
- A stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.
- (by extension)
- (informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
- (historical) A type of wine cooler (“a piece of equipment used to keep wine chilled”) shaped like a sarcophagus (sense 1).
- (obsolete except Ancient Greece, historical) A kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.
verb
- (transitive) To enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus (noun sense 1).
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Examples of "sarcophagus" in Sentences
- The church contains the sarcophagus of the saint.
- The lid of the sarcophagus was made of pink granite.
- The newfound remains were placed in a sarcophagus in the basilica.
- In the burial chamber, there also stood the sarcophagus of the queen.
- On the front of the sarcophagus is the same inscription quoted above.
- The rectangular sarcophagus was originally borne on caryatid figures.
- At the center of gallery, there is the sarcophagus found only on the island.
- They modeled the figures of the dead, who appeared lying on the sarcophagus.
- The crypt in a nearby castle contains the sarcophagus of the Opalinski family.
- He placed the sarcophagus in the center of the pavilion and reviewed his work.
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