cage – English noun declension

English noun forms of cage

Noun: cage
Singularcage
Pluralcages

Sample Sentences

  • We keep a bird in a cage.
  • The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.
  • The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage.
  • For his father had / never a house but the cage. [c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], lines 48–49:]
  • Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage. [1642, Richard Lovelace, To Althea, from Prison, stanza 4, lines 1–2:]
  • Schwartz examines with dignity and tenderness the battles within and without of […] families, created and biological, and the cages and freedom they can provide. [1989 December 17, Nan Donald, “Broken Hearts, Messed Up Families, And New Beginnings”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 9:]
  • My body is a cage / That keeps me from dancing with the one I love / But my mind holds the key [2007, Jeremy Gara, Régine Chassagne, “My Body Is a Cage”, in Neon Bible, performed by Arcade Fire:]
  • The 'out of the closet' lesbians and gay men here in the Iowa Cages are harassed and discriminated daily by oppressive pigs, believe me, I know, as a lesbian I've experienced it first hand and seen my fellow lesbian and gay friends oppressed to where I'm ready to explode. [1985 December 14, Robyn Shawnee Jackson, “Kouuntry And Kitten”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 22, page 4:]
  • Cage, in carpentry, is an outer work of timber inclosing another within it. Thus the cage of a stair is the wooden inclosure that encircles it. [1842, Joseph Gwilt, “A Glossary of Terms Used by Architects”, in An Encyclopædia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical, 2nd edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, published 1851, page 941:]

Etymology

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail. See: Middle English Nouns 'cage', Latin Nouns 'cavea'.

Verbs referencing "cage"

English Nouns gabion, Italian Nouns gabbia, Zulu Nouns ikheji.