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
coopers
plural
verb (used with object)
coopers,
present (3rd person singular)
coopered,
past participle, past
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)
coopers,
present (3rd person singular)
coopered,
past participle, past
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
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
By this time, the cooper had seized Mr. Hollis, but, suddenly afraid, let go.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2015
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
He should have been living with his mother and father in their cottage, rounding off barrels for the cooper or apprenticed to another of the town’s craftsmen.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
At the speech, he will be joined by Health Secretary Yvette Cooper.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Cooper had prepared a number of options, including an intensive campaign that could last 10 to 14 days, officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Earlier in the deposition, Cooper said he had previously intervened when the two rappers encountered each other outside a recording studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Cooper acknowledged that the person he identified as YG was wearing a black balaclava that exposed only the area around his eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
It was Dr. Cooper when she was a teenaged student at the school.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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
In France, coopers dried their wood for up to three years, while Americans tended to stop at a year.
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
The launch returned to the frigate when work was knocked off, and came back with a fresh body of men in the morning, and with the carpenters, coopers, and all the available tools on board.
From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
The ribs below their throbbing fingers became the wobbly staves of a poorly coopered barrel.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
You stand there and tell me calmly that the government has all these resources coopered up here in a barrel?—that nobody is going to get a chance to make any money out of them?
From The City of Numbered Days by Lynde, Francis
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 Nye, Bill
Wrong, sir? why, I have lost my leg, and the Captain's clerk says I am not in the Return!—Look here, sir, had Doctor Kelson not coopered me, where should I have been?—Why,
From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael
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
Completed thatching the store; continued landing stores from the schooner; coopering the flour-barrels.
From Journals of Australian Explorations by Gregory, Augustus Charles
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