casket.

1. A box used to hold a body for burial or cremation.

2. A small box used to hold jewels or other valued items.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• closed casket
• burial casket

On the page

The casket remained closed throughout the service.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Singular casket; plural caskets. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.