cage
[ keyj ]
/ keɪdʒ /
noun
verb (used with object), caged, cag·ing.
to put or confine in or as if in a cage.
Sports.
to shoot (as a puck) into a cage so as to score a goal.
Origin of cage
1175–1225; Middle English < Old French < Latin
cavea birdcage, equivalent to
cav(us) hollow +
-ea, feminine of
-eus adj. suffix
OTHER WORDS FROM cage
cage·less, adjective cage·like, adjective re·cage, verb (used with object), re·caged, re·cag·ing.Words nearby cage
Definition for cage (2 of 2)
Cage
[ keyj ]
/ keɪdʒ /
noun
John,1912–1992,
U.S. composer.
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British Dictionary definitions for cage (1 of 2)
cage
/ (keɪdʒ) /
noun
verb
(tr)
to confine in or as in a cage
Word Origin for cage
C13: from Old French, from Latin
cavea enclosure, from
cavus hollow
British Dictionary definitions for cage (2 of 2)
Cage
/ (keɪdʒ) /
noun
John. 1912–92, US composer of experimental music for a variety of conventional, modified, or invented instruments. He evolved a type of music apparently undetermined by the composer, such as in Imaginary Landscape (1951) for 12 radio sets. Other works include Reunion (1968), Apartment Building 1776 (1976), and Europeras 3 and 4 (1990)