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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CANOPY, n.
1. A covering over a throne, or over a bed; more generally, a covering over the head. So the sky is called a canopy, and a canopy is borne over the head in processions.
2. In architecture and sculpture, a magnificent decoration serving to cover and crown an altar, throne, tribunal, pulpit, chair or the like.
CANOPY, v.t. To cover with a canopy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit
2: the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air
3: a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather v
1: cover with a canopy

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural -pies) Etymology: Middle English canope, from Medieval Latin canopeum mosquito net, from Latin conopeum, from Greek k?n?pion, from k?n?ps mosquito Date: 14th century 1. a. a cloth covering suspended over a bed b. a cover (as of cloth) fixed or carried above a person of high rank or a sacred object ; baldachin c. a protective covering: as (1) the uppermost spreading branchy layer of a forest (2) awning, marquee 2. an ornamental rooflike structure 3. a. the transparent enclosure over an airplane cockpit b. the fabric part of a parachute that catches the air II. transitive verb (-pied; -pying) Date: 1594 to cover with or as if with a canopy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 a a covering hung or held up over a throne, bed, person, etc. b the sky. c an overhanging shelter. 2 Archit. a rooflike projection over a niche etc. 3 the uppermost layers of foliage etc. in a forest. 4 a the expanding part of a parachute. b the cover of an aircraft's cockpit. --v.tr. (-ies, -ied) supply or be a canopy to. Etymology: ME f. med.L canopeum f. L conopeum f. Gk konopeion couch with mosquito-curtains f. konops gnat

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Canopy Can"o*py (k[a^]n"[-o]*p[y^]), n.; pl. Canopies (-p[i^]z). [OE. canapie, F. canap['e] sofa, OF. conop['e]e, conopeu, conopieu, canopy, vail, pavilion (cf. It. canop[`e] canopy, sofa), LL. conopeum a bed with mosquito curtains, fr. Gr. kwnwpei^on, fr. kw`nwps gnat, kw`nos cone + 'w`ps face. See Cone, and Optic.] 1. A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. ``Golden canopies and beds of state.'' --Dryden. 2. (Arch.) (a) An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc. (b) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Canopy Can"o*py, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canopes; p. pr. & vb. n. Canopying.] To cover with, or as with, a canopy. ``A bank with ivy canopied.'' --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(canopies) 1. A canopy is a decorated cover, often made of cloth, which is placed above something such as a bed or a seat. N-COUNT 2. A canopy is a layer of something that spreads out and covers an area, for example the branches and leaves that spread out at the top of trees in a forest. The trees formed such a dense canopy that all beneath was a deep carpet of pine-needles. N-COUNT: usu sing

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kan'-o-pi (chuppah, from a root meaning "to enclose" or "cover"): Isa 4:5 the King James Version has "defence," the English Revised Version "canopy," the American Standard Revised Version "covering," the last being best, though "canopy" has much in its favor. In Ps 19:5 (Hebrew 19:6) chuppah is used of the bridegroom's chamber and in Joe 2:16 of the bride's. Among the Hebrews the chuppah was originally the chamber in which the bride awaited the groom for the marital union. In Judith 10:21; 13:9,15; 16:19 the word canopy occurs as the English equivalent of the Greek konopeion, which was primarily a mosquito-net and then a canopy over a bed, whether for useful or for decorative purposes.

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Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Awning, tilt, baldaquin.

Moby Thesaurus

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