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Definition: COPPICE |
COPPICENoun1. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. |
Date "COPPICE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Note: Coppice \Cop"pice\ (k[o^]p"p[i^]s), transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Coppiced(-p[i^]st); Coppicing.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A forest originating from coppice shoots, root suckers or both, i. e. by vegetative means. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vegetable | Timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte.; arboretum . |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: COPPICE |
| English words defined with "COPPICE": Copsewood. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "COPPICE": coppice forest ♦ sprout forest. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He at once entered a coppice with Cosette, and both disappeared from sight. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "COPPICE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "COPPICE" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "COPPICE": coppice forest ♦ coppice shoot. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "COPPICE": Coppice-as-fuel, coppice-wood, coppice-workers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
coppice | 5 |
coppice somerset | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COPPICE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zabel (bocage, brake, copse, covert, Grove, thicket), korije (boscage, Bosk, bosket, bosquet, brake, copse, Grove, spinney, tope). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غيضة صغيرة الأشجار (spinney), أيكة صغيرة الأشجار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гъстак (copse, thicket), горичка (copse, hurst). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 矮林 (brushwood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | podrost (brush, brushwood, copse, scrub, underbrush, undergrowth), mlazina, mlází (brushwood, copse, undergrowth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stævningsskov (coppice forest, sprout forest), lavskov (coppice forest, sprout forest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kreupelhout (brake, brush, coppice forest, scrub, sprout forest, thicket), knothout (coppice forest, sprout forest), hakhout (brake, coppice forest, sprout forest, thicket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vesametsä (coppice forest, sprout forest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | taillis (copse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unterholz (brake, brush, underbrushes, undergrowth, underwood, underwoods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρεμνοφυές δάσος (coppice forest, sprout forest), λόχμη (brake, copse, spinney, thicket), αλσύλλιο (copse), θάμνοσ (chaparral, copse, scrub, shrub), δασύλλιο (spinney). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חורש" (copse, forest, spinney, thicket, wood), חרש (deaf, deaf person, secretly, silently, thicket). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | cserjés (Bosk, bosky, Bush, bushy, scrogs, scrub, scrubland, shrubbery, spinney, thicket, tuft). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bosco ceduo (copse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | keyll veg (bosk, bosket, copse, shaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oppicecay talhadia (coppice forest, coppicing, sprout forest). (various references) crâng (Grove, hurst, spinney, thicket, wood), subarboret, dumbravã (Grove, spinney). (various references) роща (boscage, bosk, copse, grove, hurst, tope), лесной участок (timberland). (various references) mali gaj, čestar (bosk, chaparral, copse, thicket), šikara (boscage, boskage, underbrush). (various references) chirpial (coppice forest, sprout forest), monte bajo (coppice forest, sprout forest), matorral (bosket, brake, bush, copse, scrub, shrub, thicket). (various references) skogsdunge (copse, Grove, spinney). (various references) พื้นที่ที่มีต้นไม้ขนา"เล็กขึ้นหนาแน่น. (various references) koru (copse, Grove, Holt, small forest, spinney, wood), ağaçlık (copse, full of trees, Greenwood, Grove, hurst, silvan, sylvan, wood, wooded, Woody), çalılık (brake, braky, brushwood, brush-wood, bushes, copse, scrub, scrubby, shrubbery, spinney, thicket). (various references) хащі. (various references) ch"i (bud, coppice-clump, scion), tược (coppice-clump, tiller), gốc (coppice-clump, cradle, group, origin, principle, radical, sprang, spring, sprung). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COPPICE": coppiced, coppices. (additional references) | |
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"COPPICE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: capice, capishe, cappice, copice, copine, coppee, Coppi, coppic, Coppick, coppie, Coppuck. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-o-p-p" | |
-3 letters: cope, epic, pepo, pice, pipe, pope. | |
-4 letters: cep, cop, ice, ope, pec, pep, pic, pie, pip, poi, pop. | |
-5 letters: oe, op, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-o-p-p" | |
+1 letter: coppiced, coppices. | |
+3 letters: apoplectic, episcopacy, periscopic, pickpocket. | |
+4 letters: pickpockets, preoccupied, preoccupies, procephalic. | |
+5 letters: episcopacies, preoccupying. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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