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How to pronounce “sarcophagus”
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Pronunciation guide for sarcophagus
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of sarcophagus with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 7 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Sarah Kurnick: "Aliens built the pyramids" and other absurdities of pseudo-archaeology
The image carved into the sarcophagus lid of the Maya king Pakal
- Definition summary
- A stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.
Example 1 of 7
How to pronounce sarcophagus
Sarah Kurnick: "Aliens built the pyramids" and other absurdities of pseudo-archaeology
The image carved into the sarcophagus lid of the Maya king Pakal
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “sarcophagus”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A stone coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.
- (by extension)
- (obsolete except Ancient Greece, historical) A kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus (noun sense 1).
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