sarcophagus
Meaning of sarcophagus
noun
a stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece.
late Middle English: via Latin from Greek sarkophagos ‘flesh-consuming’, from sarx, sark- ‘flesh’ + -phagos ‘-eating’.
Information about sarcophagus
- It is a name.
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Hyphenation of sarcophagus
sar-coph-a-gus
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- sarcophagus is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Words that rhyme with sarcophagus
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