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Meaning of sarcophagi

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

sarcophagi

Pronunciation:/-d͡ʒaɪ/

noun

Definitions

  1. A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.

  2. The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

  3. A kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.

  4. An 18th-century form of wine cooler.