CANOPIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does canopied mean? 

• CANOPIED (adjective)
  The adjective CANOPIED has 1 sense:

1. covered with or as with a canopy

  Familiarity information: CANOPIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANOPIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Covered with or as with a canopy

Context example:

streets canopied by stately trees

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

It was a very grey day; a most opaque sky, "onding on snaw," canopied all; thence flakes felt it intervals, which settled on the hard path and on the hoary lea without melting.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that surrounded me and to perceive the boundaries of the radiant roof of light which canopied me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There too was the broad sweep of the river Exe, the old stone well, the canopied niche of the Virgin, and in the centre of all the cluster of white-robed figures who waved their hands to him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Above was a wreath-work of blazonry, extending up to the carved and corniced oaken roof; while on either side stood the high canopied chairs placed for the master of the house and for his most honored guest.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)