copy – English noun declension

English noun forms of copy

Noun: copy
Singularcopy
Pluralcopies

Sample Sentences

  • Please bring me at least 200 copies of this report. The photocopier is down the hall on the right.
  • His new book is out. I have a signed copy. He'll send you a copy if you want one. He's giving free copies to his former colleagues who want one. The press run is 3000 copies, and he hopes to sell more press runs after this one.
  • I already saw their draft. She emailed me a copy yesterday. I can forward it to you so that you have your own copy.
  • I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original. [1656, John Denham, preface to The Destruction of Troy:]
  • Every cell in this organism contains a copy of each gene, but whether that copy will be expressed depends on complex factors of cell differentiation and epigenetics.
  • That handbag is a copy. You can tell because the buckle is different.
  • This organization doesn't publish any copy that hasn't been edited by a good copy editor.
  • ad copy; advertising copy
  • Has your ad copy plenty of punch? [1930, “Instructions in Sound”, in Moving Picture Review & Theatre Management, volume 25, Exhibitors Trade Review Publishing, page 40:]
  • Submit all copy to the appropriate editor.
  • Tim got in trouble for forgetting his maths copy.
  • Our town's public library has several copies of the Bible, in each of several editions.
  • Our town's public library has several copies of the second edition of Smith's textbook, but it doesn't yet have any copies of any newer edition.
  • Have you seen the latest copy of Newsweek yet?
  • His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
  • Let him first learn to write, after a copy of all the letters. [1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC:]
  • [S]he was bleſt with no more Copie of wit, but to ſerue his Humor thus. [1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature F, verso:]
  • But in them nature's copy's not eterne [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]

Etymology

From Middle English copy, copie, from Old French copie (“abundance, plenty; transcript, copy”), from Medieval Latin copia (“reproduction, transcript”), from Latin cōpia (“plenty, abundance”), from *coopia, from co- (“together”) + ops (“wealth, riches”). More at opulent. See: Latin Nouns 'cōpia'.

Verbs referencing "copy"

Finnish Nouns copy.