Word
Sarcophagus
How many syllables?
4 Syllables
How it's divided?
sar-coph-a-gus
Definition
- n. - A species of limestone used among the Greeks for
making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few
weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis
Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a
city of Lycia.
- n. - A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone
described above; hence, any stone coffin.
- n. - A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a
grave as a memorial.
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