kopje

«kopje» in Mova's school dictionary: A small hill, usually rocky, standing alone on flat open… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a kopje, kopjes; also koppie)

meaning for a pupil

1) (South Africa) A small hill, usually rocky, standing alone on flat open land (the veld). tree →

2) It comes from Afrikaans and Dutch, meaning «little head». tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons about southern Africa, kopjes are small rocky hills on the grasslands, where lions and other animals rest; in history lessons about the Boer War, soldiers fought around kopjes. A similar word is «tor» on Dartmoor. Phrases: a rocky kopje.

examples

• The lions lay on top of the kopje, watching the plain. tree →
• A kopje is a small rocky hill in South Africa. tree →
• From the kopje, we could see the whole valley. tree →
• The soldiers hid behind a kopje. tree →
• Baboons climbed over the rocks of the kopje. tree →
• The safari truck stopped near a kopje at sunset. tree →

note

Countable: a kopje, kopjes. Pronounced KOP-ee. The «j» is silent, as in Dutch and Afrikaans. Also spelled «koppie». A South African English word.

In the corpora

• Serengeti lions rest on rocky outcrops called kopjes, which give them shade, a lookout and safe dens for cubs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «kopje» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.