Explore Copse through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like brush or brushwood. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Copse meaning
- 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.
Using Copse
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: brush, brushwood, coppice, thicket.
- In the example corpus, copse often appears in combinations such as: copse of, the copse, copse where.
Context around Copse
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Copse
- In this selection, "copse" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, small, kings, billy, avenue, leigh and west stand out and add context to how "copse" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a shady copse where a and a small copse of native. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "copse" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with copse
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Raikkonen sticks one on Ricciardo going into Copse. (8 words)
The second route is marked by poles that vanish into a copse of skinny trees. (15 words)
Kerrie Cook, 28, of Billy Copse, Leigh Park, admitted failing to comply with a community order. (16 words)
Although the U.S. line wavered and broke temporarily at a jog called the "Angle" in a low stone fence, just north of a patch of vegetation called the Copse of Trees, reinforcements rushed into the breach, and the Confederate attack was repulsed. (43 words)
Helen Lintott’s Edmunds Close property backs onto Kings Copse Avenue, which has a 40mph speed limit, where a number of crashes over the years have seen walls smashed down and vehicles on their roofs. (35 words)
One example is the Bronze Age trackway at Withy Bed Copse, in England; the trackway was built from wood that had clearly been worked for other purposes before being re-used in the trackway. (34 words)
Example sentences (14)
Only a small copse of native trees now survive but within this copse could lie a very sustainable solution to rejuvenating oak trees in the wider area.
Helen Lintott’s Edmunds Close property backs onto Kings Copse Avenue, which has a 40mph speed limit, where a number of crashes over the years have seen walls smashed down and vehicles on their roofs.
Up next, is the old-start finish line and the high-speed right-hander at Copse – where collided in 2021.
Gathering in the copse at the end of the lane, they chattered loudly, if not quite amicably, the noise peaking as several hundred others joined them on the crowded perch.
Kerrie Cook, 28, of Billy Copse, Leigh Park, admitted failing to comply with a community order.
Pushing through low branches, he reaches a shady copse where a profusion of different varieties grow.
Raikkonen sticks one on Ricciardo going into Copse.
The second route is marked by poles that vanish into a copse of skinny trees.
Although the U.S. line wavered and broke temporarily at a jog called the "Angle" in a low stone fence, just north of a patch of vegetation called the Copse of Trees, reinforcements rushed into the breach, and the Confederate attack was repulsed.
Following Nathan's advice, he finds the older gentleman in a copse, and recognizing him, is shame-stricken, and becomes his friend.
One example is the Bronze Age trackway at Withy Bed Copse, in England; the trackway was built from wood that had clearly been worked for other purposes before being re-used in the trackway.
The monument to the 72nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment ("Baxter's Philadelphia Fire Zouaves") appears at right, the Copse of Trees to the left.
The trenches from which the Accrington Pals advanced on 1 July 1916 are still visible in John Copse west of the village of Serre, and there is a memorial there made of Accrington brick.
This name is preserved by the city's football team, St Johnstone F.C. The name Perth comes from a Pictish word for wood or copse.
Common combinations with copse
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- copse of 4×
- the copse 3×
- copse where 2×
- into copse 2×