COPSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does copse mean? 

• COPSE (noun)
  The noun COPSE has 1 sense:

1. a dense growth of bushes

  Familiarity information: COPSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dense growth of bushes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket

Hypernyms ("copse" is a kind of...):

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "copse"):

brake (an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant)

canebrake (a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane))

spinney (a copse that shelters game)

underbrush; undergrowth; underwood (the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest)

 Context examples 

As soon as they entered the copse, Lady Catherine began in the following manner:—You can be at no loss, Miss Bennet, to understand the reason of my journey hither.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Birds began singing in brake and copse: birds were faithful to their mates; birds were emblems of love.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I returned home, and consulting with the sorrel nag, we went into a copse at some distance, where I with my knife, and he with a sharp flint, fastened very artificially after their manner, to a wooden handle, cut down several oak wattles, about the thickness of a walking-staff, and some larger pieces.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then he bought for the first two the fine clothes and pearls and diamonds they had asked for: and on his way home, as he rode through a green copse, a hazel twig brushed against him, and almost pushed off his hat: so he broke it off and brought it away; and when he got home he gave it to his daughter.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They ran through the vestibule into the breakfast-room; from thence to the library; their father was in neither; and they were on the point of seeking him up stairs with their mother, when they were met by the butler, who said: If you are looking for my master, ma'am, he is walking towards the little copse.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They proceeded in silence along the gravel walk that led to the copse; Elizabeth was determined to make no effort for conversation with a woman who was now more than usually insolent and disagreeable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She was no sooner in possession of it than, hurrying into the little copse, where she was least likely to be interrupted, she sat down on one of the benches and prepared to be happy; for the length of the letter convinced her that it did not contain a denial.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)