Usually means: Container for ashes or plants.
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  1. urn: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. urn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. urn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. urn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. urn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Urn, urn: Wordnik
  7. urn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. URN, urn: Wiktionary
  9. urn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. urn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. urn: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. URN: Dictionary.com
  13. urn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. urn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. URN (disambiguation), URN, Urn (Ne Obliviscaris album), Urn (album), Urn (disambiguation), Urn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Urn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. urn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. urn: Rhymezone
  19. Urn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. urn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. URN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. urn: Free Dictionary
  23. urn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. urn: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. URN: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. URN: Netlingo
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. URN: ILC Internet Terms
  5. URN (Uniform Resource Name): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  6. urn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. urn: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. URN: Acronym Finder
  3. URN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. urn: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. urn: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See urning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A vase with a footed base.
noun:  A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
noun:  A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
noun:  (figurative) Any place of burial; the grave.
noun:  (historical, Roman antiquity) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
noun:  (botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
verb:  (transitive) To place in an urn.
noun:  (Internet) Initialism of uniform resource name.

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