coupe
noun
Also a closed, two-door car shorter than a sedan of the same model.
coupe
1 American
[koop]
/ kup /
coupe
2
American
[koop]
/ kup /
noun
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ice cream or sherbet mixed or topped with fruit, liqueur, whipped cream, etc.
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a glass container for serving such a dessert, usually having a stem and a wide, deep bowl.
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any rimless plate.
coupé
3
American
[koo-pay, koop]
/ kuˈpeɪ, kup /
noun
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coupés
plural
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a short, four-wheeled, closed carriage, usually with a single seat for two passengers and an outside seat for the driver.
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the end compartment in a European diligence or railroad car.
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Ballet. an intermediary step to transfer the weight from one foot to the other.
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(in Continental heraldry) party per fess.
coupé
1
British
/ ˈkuːpeɪ /
noun
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Also called: fixed-head coupé. a four-seater car with a fixed roof, a sloping back, and usually two doors Compare drophead coupé
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a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two seats inside and one outside for the driver
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an end compartment in a European railway carriage with seats on one side only
coupe
2
British
/ kuːp /
noun
-
a dessert of fruit and ice cream, usually served in a glass goblet
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a dish or stemmed glass bowl designed for this dessert
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of coupe1
First recorded in 1880–85; see origin at coupé
Origin of coupe2
1375–1425 for earlier senses “wicker basket, tub, cask”; 1890–95 for current senses; Middle English < Anglo-French co ( u ) pe, Old French coupe < Late Latin cuppa, Latin cūpa cask, tub, barrel; cf. cup
Origin of coupé3
1825–35; < French coupé ( coupé in defs. 1, 2 short for carrosse coupé “cut-off or shortened coach”), past participle of couper “to cut off,” verbal derivative of coup coup 1; cf. cope 1
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The current Mustang lineup ranges from a four-cylinder coupe that starts at about $33,000 to a high-end performance coupe that tops $100,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Mercedes-Benz unveiled its AMG GT four-door coupe, a high-end EV with 1,153 horsepower and a zero to 60 mph time of about two seconds.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Among them: the rear quarter-lights are masked with graphics that suggest a coupe roofline hiding inside the hatch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Back at Chainsaw the friends drink their iced lattes, they eat their beautiful chocolate milk tres leches in a coupe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
He went with them in the old Ford coupe.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
A limited-edition two-seat coupé will bridge Alfa Romeo from its internal combustion engine roots to an all-electric future.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
The Roma will be a 2+ coupé, meaning it has two small rear-seats, Ferrari said on Wednesday, without disclosing its price.
From Reuters ● Nov. 13, 2019
A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 4, 2017
One elegant small carriage that appears in the street scene is a coupé made about 1860.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2013
She did not wish to enter the coupé, and told Doctor Mandelet she would walk; she was not afraid, and would go alone.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
The group’s members stood on a platform built on the back of a flatbed truck, playing about a dozen drums, including bass drums, congas and tenor drums known as coupés.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2018
Now, this coupé is low and narrow enough, so that our condition reminded me slightly of the luckless fowls which I have sometimes seen riding to the Cincinnati market in coupés of about equal convenience.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The coupés of the rich trundled over the pavements to his retreat at the St. James Hotel.
From The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow by Robert Grant
Pretty girls with pale countenances pierced with bright eyes, like fragments of coal in flour, showed themselves at the doors of the coupés, close to the muzzles of pink-nosed, well-combed, white-haired little dogs.
From His Excellency the Minister by Henri Roberts
He thought of the Avenue he had known, with its long lines of hansom cabs, its dashing broughams and coupés with jingling harness, livened footmen, everything sprucely up-to-date.
From His Family by Ernest Poole
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