copse
/kɒps/
copse noun: a coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
Noun
copse (plural copses)
- A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
- Synonyms:
- mott
- 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
- The day is come when I again repose
Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,
Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,
Among the woods and copses lose themselves,1798, [William Wordsworth], “Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], →OCLC, page 202
- Any woodland or woodlot.
Verb
copse (third-person singular simple present copses, present participle copsing, simple past and past participle copsed)
- To trim or cut.
- To plant and preserve.
copse meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
copse in Tamil
- சிறுதூறு
copse in Bengali
- copse, coppice, underwood
- ঝোপ jhōp
copse in Malayalam
- grove, thicket, wood
- ചെറുവൃക്ഷക്കൂട്ടം, വനം, കാവ്, ഭൂതസ്ഥാനം, സർപ്പക്കാവ്, കാട്
copse in Kannada
- ಕಿರುಕಾಡು, ಕುರುಚಲು ಕಾಡು, ಪೊದೆಕಾಡು
More languagesFewer languages
- copse in Sanskrit
- गुल्म gulma
Examples of copse in a sentence
- Three thundercloven thrones of oldest snow, / Stood sunsetflushed: and, dewed with showery drops, / Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 109:
- Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19
Synonyms of copse
Forms of copse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | copses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | copses |
| present participle | copsing |
| past participle | copsed |
| past | copsed |
Origin of copse
1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.
Words formed from copse
Words that rhyme with copse
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Questions about copse
- What does copse mean?
- Copse means a coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
- What is copse in Tamil?
- Copse in Tamil is சிறுதூறு. See Copse meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use copse in a sentence?
- Three thundercloven thrones of oldest snow, / Stood sunsetflushed: and, dewed with showery drops, / Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.
- What part of speech is copse?
- Copse can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce copse?
- Copse is pronounced /kɒps/.
- What is the plural of copse?
- The plural of copse is copses.
Words near copse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: copse (page history and authors); copse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ঝোপ (Bengali) (page history and authors); copse (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); copse (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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