canopy
nounEtymology
From Middle English canapy, canepie, canapee, canape, canope, from Old French conopé, Medieval Latin canapeum, canopeum, from Latin cōnōpēum (“mosquito net, canopy”), from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon, “mosquito net”), from Ancient Greek κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”), of uncertain origin. More at Ancient Greek κώνωψ (kṓnōps). Doublet of canapé and conopeum.
Definitions
A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly…
A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
- golden canopies and beds of state
- Platforms would be widened and covered by canopies with heated waiting areas for passengers.
Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
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In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
To cover with or as if with a canopy.
- Away before me to sweet beds of flowers: Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.
- I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied, and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle […]
- 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.
To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
The neighborhood
- neighborcanopied
- neighborcanopy bed
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for canopy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA