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copps

copps is the obsolete form of copse.

Meaning of copse

Noun

copse (plural copses)

  1. A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
    Synonyms:
    mott
  2. Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
    • Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides.1578, Henry Lyte, transl., A niewe Herball or Historie of Plantes, translation of Cruydeboeck by Rembert Dodoens, page 57
    Synonyms:
    thicket, bush, orchard
  3. Any woodland or woodlot.
    Synonyms:
    stand, wood, woods

See all 5 meanings of copse

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Copps

Copps (plural Coppses or Copps)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Copps

Copps

  1. (plural) plural of Copp

Forms of copps

Noun
pluralcoppses
Proper noun
pluralCoppses
pluralCopps

Questions about copps

What does copps mean?
Copps means a surname.
What is copps the obsolete form of?
Copps is the obsolete form of copse.
What part of speech is copps?
Copps is a proper noun.

Words near copps in the dictionary

  1. Coppolas
  2. Coppolino
  3. Coppolinos
  4. coppra
  5. coppras
  6. copps
  7. coppses
  8. Coppull
  9. coppy
  10. coppying
  11. COPR

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copps (page history and authors); Copps (page history and authors); copse (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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