COOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coop mean? 

• COOP (noun)
  The noun COOP has 2 senses:

1. a farm building for housing poultry

2. an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

  Familiarity information: COOP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A farm building for housing poultry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chicken coop; coop; hencoop; henhouse

Hypernyms ("coop" is a kind of...):

farm building (a building on a farm)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cage; coop

Hypernyms ("coop" is a kind of...):

enclosure (a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coop"):

birdcage (a cage in which a bird can be kept)

hutch (a cage (usually made of wood and wire mesh) for small animals)

squirrel cage (cage with a cylindrical framework that rotates as a small animal runs inside it)

 Context examples 

Will Miss Amy ride in her coop (coupe), and use all them lovely silver dishes that's stored away over yander?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His thin figure and long limbs struggled and fluttered like a chicken being dragged from a coop.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall get the dairymaid to set them under the first spare hen, and if they come to good I can have them moved to my own house and borrow a coop; and it will be a great delight to me in my lonely hours to attend to them.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)