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copel

copel is the obsolete spelling of couple.

copel is the obsolete spelling of cupel.

Meaning of couple

Noun

couple (plural couples)

  1. Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
    • A couple of police officers appeared at the door.
    Synonyms:
    brace
  2. Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
    • The number of Souls in the Kingdom being uſually reckon'd one Million and a half, Of theſe I calculate there may be about tvvo hundred thouſand Couple vvhoſe VVives are Breeders, from vvhich Number I Subſtract thirty Thouſand Couples, vvho are able to maintain their ovvn Children, […]1729, [Jonathan Swift], A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, Dublin: […]...
    Synonyms:
    twosome
  3. (informal) A small number.
    • A couple of billiard balls, all mud and dirt, two battered hats, a champagne bottle […]1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    few, handful
  4. One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
  5. A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
  6. A couple-close.

See all 14 meanings of couple

Meaning of cupel

Noun

cupel (plural cupels)

  1. A small circular receptacle used in assaying gold or silver with lead.

See all 2 meanings of cupel

Forms of copel

pluralcopels

Questions about copel

What is copel the obsolete spelling of?
Copel is the obsolete spelling of couple.

Words near copel in the dictionary

  1. copedants
  2. copedst
  3. Copeh
  4. Copehan
  5. copei
  6. copel
  7. Copeland
  8. Copeland's method
  9. Copeland-Erdős constant
  10. Copelin
  11. Copelins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copel (page history and authors); couple (page history and authors); cupel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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