Noun

(en noun)

a vase with a footed base

* Bishop Wilkins

A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an urn , or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.

* Dryden

His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, / And once more join us in the pious urn .

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a metal vessel for serving tea or coffee

a vessel for ashes or cremains of a deceased person

(figurative) Any place of burial; the grave.

* Shakespeare

Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn , / Tombless, with no remembrance over them.

(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.

(botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

Noun

(en noun)

A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.

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A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces, 1/16 of a US gallon, or 236.5882365 ml.

A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.

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A contest for which a cup is awarded.

(golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.

(US) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia. (for UK usage see box)

One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast, used as a measurement of size.

(mathematics) The symbol $\backslash cup$ denoting union and similar operations (confer cap).

A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.

(ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping'' the thrower; ''or those three players.

A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction (suction cup).

Anything shaped like a cup.

the cup of an acorn

* Shenstone

The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.

(medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.

That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.

* Bible, Matthew xxvi. 39

O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.