🇬🇧🇨🇳 casket - 棺材 : English Lesson

Meaning of "casket" ("棺材"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A casket is a special box with a lid that is used to keep important or valuable things safe, and it is also the kind of box people are placed in when they are buried after they die. It is usually treated with a lot of respect and care.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The tiny fairy kept a casket under a mushroom, stuffed with acorns, glitter, and unpaid parking tickets.

My sister made a “super-important casket” for her toys, then forgot where she buried it, so now we have archaeological digs in the backyard.

At the museum, we saw an ancient casket that was older than our math teacher’s jokes.

The dragon guarded a golden casket, but inside was just his collection of embarrassing baby photos.

My cat thinks the shoe box is a royal casket and naps inside like the Emperor of Napping.

At dawn she lifted the small oak casket, then placed the locket inside the casket. Her father’s casket waited in the cold chapel; she opened that casket, set the small casket on his chest, and closed the big casket. She stepped back, breathing, and smiled through her tears, whispering goodbye softly.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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