Ash | Mean of ash in English Dictionary

/ˈæʃ/

• Noun
• the soft gray powder that remains after something (such as a cigarette or wood) has been completely burned and destroyed by fire
1. The town lay under a thick layer/blanket of ash.
2. clouds of hot volcanic ash
3. The village was covered in ashes.
4. cigarette ashes
• the burned parts that remain when something is destroyed
1. The city was reduced to ashes by the fire. = The city was burned to ashes.
2. Their happiness turned to ashes. [=their happiness was destroyed]
3. The nation slowly rose from the ashes of war. = It slowly rose out of the ashes and began to rebuild itself.
4. We sifted through the ashes of our ruined lives.
• the remains of a dead human body after it has been burned or cremated
1. the ashes of the dead
2. She kept her dead mother's ashes in a jar above the fireplace.
3. He asked to have his ashes scattered along the river.

• a type of tree that grows in northern parts of the world and that has thin gray bark and hard wood
• the hard wood of an ash tree
1. baseball bats made of ash