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casket

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A small box or case for keeping valuables. In older or poetic use, it can also suggest a coffin-like container.

Detailed Definition
A casket is a box for storing precious things, though in some contexts it can also evoke a burial container. Keats uses it metaphorically for the soul, making sleep feel like the closing of something treasured and private.
Example
Example in poetry:
“And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul,” uses casket metaphorically as a container for inner life; “Her casket lay beneath white lilies,” gives the word its funeral sense; Donne-like devotional poetry may imagine the body as a casket for spirit; “The jeweler’s casket held a letter, not a ring,” recalls the word’s older sense of a small box
Additional Notes
In "the hushed Casket of my Soul," casket is a less common literary word with a specialized older sense, so readers may need to look it up.; Found in the poem, To Sleep by John Keats
Also Known As
urn coffin receptacle tomb
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