caskets

noun

Definition of casketsnext
plural of casket
1
as in coffins
a boxlike container for holding a dead body bought a beautiful casket when her grandmother died

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2
as in bins
a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things a small casket of jewels

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caskets
  1. bins
  2. boxes
  3. lockers
  4. trunks
  5. chests
Noun
  • Right now, our list includes fabric storage bins, under-sink organizers, food storage bins, and other organizers for the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and other living spaces.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Skip the cardboard boxes Really just trust me on this one and rent reusable bins from a moving company with good reviews.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Architectural Digest, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of bins
Noun
  • Instead of lethality, our military is focused on checking race/gender boxes.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • This formula by La Roche-Posay ticks all of those boxes and then some.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of boxes
Noun
  • Images from the campaign feature Maher in a locker room setting, wearing a sporty chic pink ensemble, featuring a pleated tennis skirt, holding a matching bullhorn and posing in front of lockers containing the Paula’s Choice Pro-Collagen Peptide Plumping Moisturizer.
    Julia Teti, WWD, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Throughout are the spa and fitness center, a wine room with private storage lockers, a lap pool, a theater, and poolside cabanas.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of lockers
Noun
  • Forest Park asks residents to place the trees on the grass by the curb on the south side of the park's parking lot and to point the trunks toward the parking lot curb and the top of the tree pointing toward West Kemper Road.
    Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024
  • To do something fun, wear my old trunks, get the old music to play, come out there, and kick somebody in the face?
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of trunks
Noun
  • Eight dancers with bare chests, bare feet and flowing red pants danced, weaved, twisted, bent, flopped, flipped, gathered, disbanded, reunited, cuddled, leaped and scampered for nearly an hour.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Things like under-bed lighting, concealed speakers and charging stations, and foot-of-the-bed TV chests will keep electronics out of view.
    Colleen Sullivan, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of chests
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