cooper
noun
a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
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cooper
1 American
[koo-per, koop-er]
/ ˈku pər, ˈkʊp ər /
noun
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coopers
plural
verb (used with object)
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coopers,
present (3rd person singular)
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coopered,
past participle, past
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coopering
present participle
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to make or repair (casks, barrels, etc.).
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to furnish or fix (usually followed byup ).
verb (used without object)
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coopers,
present (3rd person singular)
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coopered,
past participle, past
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coopering
present participle
Cooper
2
American
[koo-per, koop-er]
/ ˈku pər, ˈkʊp ər /
noun
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Anthony Ashley. 1st, 3rd, and 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.
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Gary Frank James Cooper, 1901–61, U.S. actor.
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Hugh Lincoln, 1865–1937, U.S. hydraulic engineer.
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James Fenimore 1789–1851, U.S. novelist.
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Leon N., born 1930, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1972.
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Peter, 1791–1883, U.S. inventor, manufacturer, reformer, and philanthropist.
Cooper
1
British
/ ˈkuːpə /
noun
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Anthony Ashley. See (Earl of) Shaftesbury
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Cary ( Lynn ). born 1940, British psychologist, noted for his studies of behaviour at work and the causes and treatment of stress
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Gary, real name Frank James Cooper. 1901–61, US film actor; his many films include Sergeant York (1941) and High Noon (1952), for both of which he won Oscars
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Sir Henry. 1934–2011, British boxer; European heavyweight champion (1964; 1968–71)
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James Fenimore 1789–1851, US novelist, noted for his stories of American Indians, esp The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
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Leon Neil. born 1930, US physicist, noted for his work on the theory of superconductivity. He shared the Nobel prize for physics 1972
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Samuel 1609–72, English miniaturist
cooper
2
British
/ ˈkuːpə /
noun
verb
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(tr) to make or mend (barrels, casks, etc)
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(intr) to work as a cooper
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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coopersimple
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cooperssimple
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have cooperedperfect
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has cooperedperfect
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am cooperingprogressive
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are cooperingprogressive
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is cooperingprogressive
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have been cooperingperfect progressive
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has been cooperingperfect progressive
Past
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cooperedsimple
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had cooperedperfect
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was cooperingprogressive
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were cooperingprogressive
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had been cooperingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of cooper
1350–1400; Middle English couper < Middle Low German kūper or Middle Dutch cūper < Medieval Latin cūpārius ( Latin cūp ( a ) cask, vat + -ārius -ary )
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The look of the university is an amalgam of Italian, Moorish and American architectural styles, with a blending of materials such as plaster, cooper and wood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
The Resolution mine could fill about 25% of the demand for U.S. cooper.
From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2021
Currently only those under 30 years old who don't have access to an affordable plan in their area can buy the so-called cooper plans from the ACA insurance exchanges.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2018
Alastair Simms says he is the only remaining master cooper in the country, but he has a feeling he is in a resurgent industry.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2014
We strolled past the featureless stone walls of the Archives, past a cooper, a bookbinder, an apothecary....
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
In 1937, the entrepreneur—whose company was simply called Ben Cooper Inc.—bought another company, A.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Cooper added more costumes as new Disney movies came out, as well as updating the old ones, Caprilozzi says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Gray is survived by his wife, Stacy Benon Gray; his stepchildren Ryan Cooper and Laurel Cooper; and son-in-law Lee Barker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Earlier this week, Barron wrote to both the leader of North Northamptonshire Council and the Health Secretary Yvette Cooper.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
In his instructions to Van Ness, who had become his designated representative in the exchange, Burr explained that the Cooper letter was merely the most recent libel against him by Hamilton.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Mr. Fox has carefully rooted through economic history as well as roamed through the countryside in search of traditional artisans, such as bell founders and coopers, to interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
In France, coopers dried their wood for up to three years, while U.S. manufacturers tended to stop at a year.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2016
Skilled coopers still build the barrels, by hand.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2016
But Diageo said the plan would create 110 new jobs aimed at young people including apprentice coopers and coppersmiths.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2012
For among those practising branches of industry, he not only includes blacksmiths, coopers, architects, planters, and pin-makers, but also clergymen, actors, circus-riders, model-artists, midwives, and boarding-house keepers!
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
As coopered up into print by a quartet of British writers, the earlier lives of the fascinating Bellamy servants have been drowned in tears and treacle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ribs below their throbbing fingers became the wobbly staves of a poorly coopered barrel.
From Time Magazine Archive
What hands coopered it in the new West? what farmer filled it?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
I've always hollered for high terriff in order to hyst the public debt, but now that we've got the national debt coopered I wish they'd take a little hack at mine.
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye
Their first guns had barrels of coopered timber, and the world waited for more than five hundred years before the explosive engine came.
From The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Two women have been accepted as coopering apprentices by drinks giant Diageo for the first time.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2019
Ms Cochrane, a former psychiatric nurse, said she discovered coopering after spotting an advert on Facebook.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2019
Seabrook has denied in sworn affidavits that there was anything improper about the investment and says he is coopering fully with the latest federal probe.
From US News ● May 27, 2015
Dressed-up role-players, who demonstrate such crafts as coopering and pottery, help bring alive Portsmouth’s past and make you feel that you, too, might have loved life in Colonial times.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2013
There were still the two men coopering at the vats, but she did not stay to speak to them.
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
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