Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

copse

/kɒps/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.34 in modern English

Syllables: copse
IPA: /kɒps/

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).

noun

Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.

noun

Any woodland or woodlot.

verb

To trim or cut.

Transitive verb

verb

To plant and preserve.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides."
"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,"
"Three thundercloven thrones of oldest snow, / Stood sunsetflushed: and, dewed with showery drops, / Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse."
"Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare."

Etymology

1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

copses (plural) copses (present, singular) copsing (participle, present) copsed (participle, past) copsed (past)

Derived Forms

copselike copsewood copsy

Synonyms

mott thicket bush orchard stand wood woods coppice

Homonyms

cops

Rhymes With

cops shops drops pull out all the stops tops crops pops chops mops slops fops strops

Questions

How do you pronounce copse?: The recorded pronunciation is /kɒps/.
What does copse mean?: A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
Where does copse come from?: 1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.

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