Meaning of Copse | Babel Free
kɒpsDefinitions
- A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
- Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
- Any woodland or woodlot.
Equivalents
Examples
“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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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