cope
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English coupen, from Old French couper (“to strike, to cut”).
Verb
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- (intransitive) To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
- I thought I would never be able to cope with life after the amputation, but I have learned how to be happy again.
- 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.
- To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
- (falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
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Synonyms
- (to deal effectively): contend, hold it together
Antonyms
- (to deal effectively): lose one's shit
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Etymology 2
From Middle English cope, from Latin capa (“cape”). Doublet of cape.
Noun
cope (plural copes)
- A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.
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- a hundred and sixty priests all in their copes
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. XI:
- He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.
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- Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
- (literary) The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.
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- the starry cope of heaven
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- (construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.
- (foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
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- An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
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Verb
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- (transitive) To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
- (intransitive) To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
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- Some bending down and coping to ward the earth.
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Translations
Etymology 3
Cognates include Dutch kopen, German kaufen.
Verb
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- (obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
- (obsolete) To exchange or barter.
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- (obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
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- Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
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- (obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
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- I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
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- They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
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- Host coped with host, dire was the battle.
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- (obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
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- Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Friulian
Etymology
From Late Latin cuppa, from Latin cūpa.
Noun
cope f (plural copes)
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin cāpa; possibly through a Old English *cāpa.
Pronunciation
Noun
cope (plural copes)
- A cape or cloak; a loose-fitting outer layer.
- A cope; a cape used by clerics and priests, especially that worn by mendicants or monastics.
- Any sort of covering or cover, especially the heavens.
Descendants
References
- “cōpe (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Late Latin cuppa, from Latin cūpa.
Pronunciation
Noun
cope oblique singular, f (oblique plural copes, nominative singular cope, nominative plural copes)
- cup (vessel from which liquid is drunk)
Descendants
Spanish
Verb
cope
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