🇬🇧 Coffin meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A coffin is a special box where a dead person’s body is gently placed so it can be buried in the ground or kept in a safe place, often during a funeral when people say goodbye and remember that person with love.

In the museum, the mummy peeked out of its coffin and whispered to the night guard, "Next time, bring snacks; this eternity thing is long."

The vampire opened his coffin, yawned, and said, "Five more centuries, please," then closed the lid again like a sleepy teenager.

Dracula tried to order a coffin online, but the website kept suggesting "sunny beach vacations," which he definitely did not appreciate.

The skeleton climbed into a coffin just to practice his "serious face" for Halloween, but every time he shut the lid he started giggling instead.

The vampire’s alarm clock was nailed to the inside of his coffin, but every morning he still hit "snooze for one more century."

A child held a small lantern as six men carried a wooden coffin past the church. Another open coffin showed folded hands. The child touched the closed coffin's corner and watched them lower the heavy coffin into the grave. The coffin lid was closed. Dirt landed. The child whispered goodbye and let one wet tear fall.

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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