Hearse

Quick meaning: Hearse is a noun meaning A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.

Meaning

A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.

More Meanings

1. A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
2. A carriage or vehicle specially adapted or used for transporting a dead person to the place of funeral or to the grave.
3. A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
4. Alternative form of hearst (“A hind (female deer) in the second or third year of her age”).
5. (dated) To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.

Example Sentences

underneath this sable hearse

who lies beneath this sculptured hearse

Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows,

Set down, set down your honourable load, / If honour may be shrouded in a hearse.

Word Forms

• hearses
• hearsing
• hearsed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include laureate, box, land, earth, bier, chapel.

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