Associations to the word «Sarcophagus»

Pictures for the word «Sarcophagus»

Wiktionary

SARCOPHAGUS, noun. A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
SARCOPHAGUS, noun. (informal) The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

Dictionary definition

SARCOPHAGUS, noun. A stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne