Dictionary

copse en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kɒps/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
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:
   • Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare. 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19
   • 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:
   • 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:
3. Any woodland or woodlot.

Forms

Deriveds

copsy · copselike · copsewood

Synonyms

stand · orchard · woods · mott · bush · thicket · coppice · wood

Translations (61)

hu csalitos (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · cs houština (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · gl matugueira (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · mk шу́мјак (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · ru подле́сок (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · ota بوك (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · gl bouza (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · hu csalit (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · mi oro (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · grc λόχμη (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · fr fourré (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · de Dickicht (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · hu sarjerdő (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · gl adramal (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · gl bravádego (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · ro pădure măruntă (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · eo bosko (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · de Niederwald (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · mk ко́парок (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · pt capão (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · gd frith-choille (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · wa hé (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · ro dumbravă (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · ang sceaga (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · de Gebüsch (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · no skogholt (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · grc δρίος (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · gl andruvial (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · gd preasarlach (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · cs remízek (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · ro crâng (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · sa गुल्म (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · es matorral (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · pl zagajnik (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · es bosquecillo (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · gl bramal (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · he סבך (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · wa rasse (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · pt souto (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · nrf bouais'sie (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · fi vesakko (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · gl touceira (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · hu bozót (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · it fratta (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · es soto (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · cs podrost (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · it bosco ceduo (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · ga rosán (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · nl bosschage (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · it boschetto (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · gl trapazal (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · cs mlází (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · ro tufiș de arbuști (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · gl mufedo (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · wa taeye (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · hu cserjés (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · it macchia (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · ru за́росли (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · de Busch (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · et võsa (thicket of small trees or shrubs) · ro subarboret (thicket of small trees or shrubs)

copse en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /kɒps/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (transitive) To trim or cut.
2. (transitive) To plant and preserve.

Forms