coppern

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Canada, UK, dialectal/ˈkɒp.ən/Canada, US, dialectal/ˈkɑ.pɚn/

adjective

Made or consisting of copper; coppery.

“Cherokee coppern jewelry”

OriginMiddle English copren ← Old English cypren ← Proto-West Germanic *kupprīn →
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Meanings

adjectivecoppern (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparablepoeticMade or consisting of copper; coppery.

    Cherokee coppern jewelry

    3 more examples

    "Therefrom Solomon made the copper sea and the pillars and the coppern vessels."

    1877, Johann Peter Lange, A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    [...] the ministers, in order to slay him in accordance with the King's command, cut at him with all kinds of swords, but they availed naught and were unable; they put him into a coppern casket and cast him into the Ganges River.

    1967, Ssanang Ssetsen, The Bejewelled Summary of the Origin of Khans

    […] a schema before them on a coppern (reference) figure of a person with markings of acupuncture points (youli kumiini zuruq).

    2001, T︠S︡eren Korsunkievich Korsunkiev, John Richard Krueger, Ancient Oirat Books about Oriental Medicine

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
copper

Origin

  1. Latincuprīnus
  2. Proto-West Germanic*kopr
  3. Proto-West Germanic*kupprīn
  4. Old Englishcypren“made of copper”
  5. Middle Englishcopren
  6. Englishcoppern

Inherited from Middle English copren, from Old English cypren (“made of copper”), from Proto-West Germanic *kupprīn, from Proto-West Germanic *kopr + *-īn, and/or from Latin cuprīnus, cyprīnus (“made of copper”). By surface analysis, copper + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Dutch koperen (“made of copper”), German kupfern (“made of copper”).

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APA

coppern. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coppern

MLA

“coppern.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coppern. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coppern,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coppern.

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