Coffin vs Crypt - What's the difference?
coffin | crypt |
An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.
(obsolete) A basket.
* Wycliffe's Bible
A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
(Webster 1913)
To place in a coffin.
* 2007 , (Barbara Everett), "Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances," London Review of Books , 29:6, p. 21:
An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.
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(anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the body
As nouns the difference between coffin and crypt
is that coffin is an oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried while crypt is an underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.As a verb coffin
is to place in a coffin.coffin
English
(wikipedia coffin)Alternative forms
* cophin (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- And all ate, and were filled. And they took the reliefs of broken gobbets, twelve coffins full (Matthew 14:20).
- Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
- (Nares)
Usage notes
The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.Synonyms
* casket (US)Derived terms
* coffin bone * coffinlike * coffin nail * coffin ride * coffin ship * encoffin * encoffiner * encoffinmentVerb
(en verb)- The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.