Casket
Casket noun - A boxlike container for holding a dead body.
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Hearse and casket are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hearse" instead a noun "Casket".
Nearby Word: cask
Hearse
Hearse noun - A vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle.
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The Squints pay tribute to Vincent Nigel-Murray by singing his favorite song as they place his casket in the hearse.
Source: Series / Bones - And then there's an interesting aversion when they're loading the casket into the hearse and they begin singing his favorite song.
Source: Amazing Freaking Grace - Reverend Lovejoy informs Marge that there actually isn't a body in the hearse because the deceased in question was "lost at sea" and the casket was just full of bricks.
Source: Burying a Substitute
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Hearse and Casket. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/casket/hearse
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