copse
English
Etymology
1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɒps/
- Rhymes: -ɒps
- Homophone: cops
Noun
copse (plural copses)
- A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
- 1798, William Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, lines 9–15 (for syntax):
- 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,
- Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
- ’Mid groves and copses.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:
- Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.
- 1798, William Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, lines 9–15 (for syntax):
Synonyms
Translations
thicket of small trees or shrubs
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Verb
copse (third-person singular simple present copses, present participle copsing, simple past and past participle copsed)
- (transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.
- (transitive, horticulture) To plant and preserve.
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