urne
French, noun/yʁn/
urne is spelled U-R-N-E (4 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written French, the 16,568th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Urne is a French feminine noun meaning “urn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vase de forme et de capacité variables qui, chez les anciens, servait à divers usages”.
What does urne mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineurn
- 2
feminineballot box
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vase de forme et de capacité variables qui, chez les anciens, servait à divers usages. 2. Vases de porcelaine, de faïence ou d’autre matière, qui ont la forme des urnes antiques. 3. Contenant destiné à recevoir des bulletins de vote. → voir urne électorale. 4. Chez les mousses, organe contenant les spores et qui forme avec le filament qui le soutient le sporophyte. → voir capsule.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of urne
- urnes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce urne?
- /yʁn/
- \yʁn\
- [yʁn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to urne
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is urne in French?
urne appears 2.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).