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caped

/ˈkeɪpt/

caped adjective: wearing a cape or capes.

Adjective

caped (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a cape or capes.
    • One of Batman’s aliases is "the Caped Crusader".
  2. (in-compounds) Wearing a cape of a specified kind.
    • Hella looked about delightedly at all of it, the cafés, the self-contained people, the violent snarl of the traffic, the blue-caped traffic policeman and his white, gleaming club.1956, James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, Penguin, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4
  3. (slang) cancelled

Synonyms of caped

Origin of caped

From cape + -ed. Piecewise doublet of capped, chaped, and coped.

Words formed from caped

Words that rhyme with caped

Questions about caped

What does caped mean?
Caped means wearing a cape or capes.
What part of speech is caped?
Caped is an adjective.
How do you pronounce caped?
Caped is pronounced /ˈkeɪpt/.

Words near caped in the dictionary

  1. Capecastle
  2. Capece
  3. Capeces
  4. capecitabin
  5. capecitabine
  6. caped
  7. caped crusader
  8. Capeen Creek
  9. capeesh
  10. Capehan
  11. Capehart

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