ASHES Definition & Meaning

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ashes

/ ˈæʃɪ�� /

plural noun

ruins or remains, as after destruction or burning
the city was left in ashes
the remains of a human body after cremation

Ashes

/ ˈæʃɪ�� /

plural noun

the Ashes
a cremated cricket stump in a pottery urn now preserved at Lord's. Victory or defeat in test matches between England and Australia is referred to as winning, losing, or retaining the Ashes

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of ashes¹

from the mock obituary of English cricket in The Times in 1882 after a great Australian victory at the Oval, in which it was said that the body would be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia

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A man's ashes that went missing in the post in a transatlantic mix-up have been found again.

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If Trump is successful, however, he would fundamentally reshape a global economic order that America had originally helped to construct from the ashes of World War 2.

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A man has been charged with 64 offences after a major investigation into a funeral directors in Hull in which police removed 35 bodies and a quantity of ashes.

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The land, though — the land keeps telling its own stories, layered stories older than the ashes.

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This is where they scattered some of her ashes.

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