Noun: canopy
| Singular | canopy |
| Plural | canopies |
Sample Sentences
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golden canopies and beds of state [1847, John Dryden, The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose, volume 1, Harper, The Beginning of the Second Book of Lucretius:]
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Platforms would be widened and covered by canopies with heated waiting areas for passengers. [2019 October, “Consultation on University Station designs”, in Modern Railways, page 17:]
Nouns inflected like canopy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Latin Nouns '
cōnōpēum', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κωνωπεῖον', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κώνωψ', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κώνωψ'.
Verbs referencing "canopy"
French Nouns
canapé, Finnish Nouns
kanooppi, Catalan Nouns
conopeu.