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DictionarycanopyOverhead covering
noun / verb

canopy

KAN-uh-pee/ˈkænəpi/

A covering that shelters or protects something from above.

The fabric canopy shades the picnic table beneath it.

An open-sided fabric canopy stretched over a picnic table, with a clear patch of shade beneath it and sunlit grass outside.
Etymology
canopyGreekcouch with mosquito curtains

The Greek word named a couch equipped with mosquito curtains. The protective curtains, rather than the couch, supplied the meaning that broadened into an overhead covering for shade or shelter.

In context

Trains Trains Trains1:48
massive goods yards, and even a glass canopy in 1924 to shelter waiting passengers.
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More examples

  • Sunlight filters through the forest canopy.
  • Vines canopy the narrow garden path.
  • The parachute's canopy opens above the falling skydiver.

Forms

canopy · canopies · canopied · canopying

Similar words

awning
Usually a covering attached to a building.
roof
A more permanent upper covering of a structure.