The word "urn" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word to refer to a vase-like container with a wide base and narrow top, typically used to hold the ashes of a cremated body or to hold flowers and other decorations. For example, "The family placed a bronze urn in the garden to contain their loved one's ashes."
Misfiring Flintoff sums up England's Ashes by Mike Selvey After hanging on to them for just 15 months, the shortest of reigns since first the urn was given to Ivo Bligh in 1883, England handed the Ashes back to Australia two balls after lunch on the final day here yesterday.
If you die in Hungary, fear not: from Wednesday the state will reportedly provide a free grave, coffin or urn – and even a free shovel for gravedigging – to poorer sections of society.
He tries to imagine his remains – or, as Beckett puts it, "to conceive of his exuviae" – "as preserved in an urn or other receptacle in some kind person's sanctum or as drifting about like a cloud of randy pollen, but somehow he could not quite bring it off, this simple little flight".
Everywhere you walk there are sad, orphaned relics – lone mailboxes, a decorative urn, a pizza oven, a sign on a knee-high gate in the middle of an empty patch of scrub that says, THIS PROPERTY NO SMOKING.
England will deservedly line up at the Gabba as favourites to retain the urn.
A man in a St George's Cross bikini goons around in the stands as Andrew Strauss and Kevin Pietersen grin from ear to ear after England seal victory to retain the urn before going on to record their first overseas Ashes series win in 24 years.
It was a little bit different back then when I played – the 2005 Ashes was the only losing series that I played in for Australia, we had won eight on the bounce prior to that campaign, and then we got the urn back in 2006-07.
While regaining the urn remains a natural priority, Strauss opted for Bayliss ahead of the Yorkshire head coach, Jason Gillespie, because of Bayliss's record of success in limited-overs cricket.
The two fell into animated conversation about their work, which would never have happened if they had met queuing at the tea urn in a break from a night shift.
In their second innings, the tourists showed resilience, but were well beaten as they were bowled out for 350, surrendering the Ashes just 15 months after regaining them, the shortest period either side had held the urn in history.
A group of men stands around the tea urn at the back, laughing and trading jokes: they all work here, I think, though at a family-run place like this you can never quite tell employees from cousins from friends.
