What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

What is the difference between copse and thicket?

copse | thicket |

As nouns the difference between copse and thicket

is that copse is a thicket of small trees or shrubs while thicket is a dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

As a verb copse

is to trim or cut.

copse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
  • * 1798 , , Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey , lines 9–15 (for syntax):
    • The day is come when I again repose
    Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
    These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,
    Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,
    Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
    ’Mid groves and copses .
  • * 1919 , , Valmouth , Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:
    • Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.

    Synonyms

    * coppice

    See also

    * bush, bushes, forest, mott, orchard * stand, thicket, wood, woods

    Verb

    (cops)
  • (horticulture) To trim or cut.
  • (horticulture) To plant and preserve.

    • Anagrams

    * copes, scope

    thicket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
  • (figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
  • (computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.

    • Anagrams

    *

    See also

    * * * * *