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coopers

coopers is the plural of cooper.

coopers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cooper.

Meaning of cooper

Noun

cooper (countable and uncountable, plural coopers)

  1. A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.
    • They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 5, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) A drink of half stout and half porter.

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Proper noun capitalized: Coopers

Coopers

  1. (plural) plural of Cooper

Phrases with coopers

Questions about coopers

What is coopers the plural of?
Coopers is the plural of cooper.
What part of speech is coopers?
Coopers is a proper noun.

Words near coopers in the dictionary

  1. Coopernook
  2. cooperon
  3. cooperonic
  4. cooperons
  5. Cooperrider
  6. coopers
  7. Coopers Creek
  8. Coopers Gully
  9. Coopers Mills
  10. Coopers Shoot
  11. Cooperstown

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