Slovak Meaning of sarcophagus

Sarkofág

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Definitions and Meaning of sarcophagus in English

Wordnet

sarcophagus (n)

a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)

Webster

sarcophagus (n.)

A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.

A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.

A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.

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Sarkofág

a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consum

Trumpa,rakva,hrob,pivo,škatuľa,krypta,urna,trezor,kostnica,Kostnica

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sarcophagous => sarkofág, sarcophagi => sarkofágy, sarcophagan => mäsovky, sarcophaga carnaria => Masařka obyčajná, sarcophaga => Sarkofág,