Usually means: Enclosure for holding a corpse.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. coffin: Merriam-Webster
  2. coffin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coffin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coffin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coffin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coffin, coffin: Wordnik
  7. coffin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Coffin, coffin: Wiktionary
  9. coffin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coffin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coffin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Coffin, coffin: Dictionary.com
  13. coffin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. coffin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Coffin (Jessie Reyez song), Coffin (film), Coffin (song), Coffin (surname), Coffin (whaling family), Coffin, The Coffin (film), The Coffin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Coffin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. coffin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. coffin: Rhymezone
  19. coffin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. coffin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Coffin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. coffin: FreeDictionary.org
  23. coffin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. coffin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. coffin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coffin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coffin: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. coffin: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. COFFIN: Acronym Finder
  4. coffin: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Coffin: Easton Bible
  2. Coffin: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. coffin, coffin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. coffin, the coffin: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  2. Coffin: Sports Definitions

(Note: See coffining as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
noun:  (cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.
noun:  (archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
noun:  (obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
noun:  The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
noun:  A storage container for nuclear waste.
noun:  A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.
verb:  (transitive) To place in a coffin.
noun:  (mining, obsolete) An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
noun:  (by extension) A deep ditch.
noun:  A surname.

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