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# kopje

«kopje» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small hill, usually rocky, standing alone on flat open…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a kopje, kopjes; also koppie)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (South Africa) A small hill, usually rocky, standing alone on flat open land (the veld). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kopje/#m1)

2) It comes from Afrikaans and Dutch, meaning «little head». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kopje/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons about southern Africa, kopjes are small rocky hills on the grasslands, where lions and other animals rest; in history lessons about the Boer War, soldiers fought around kopjes. A similar word is «tor» on Dartmoor. Phrases: a rocky kopje.

### examples

- The lions lay on top of the kopje, watching the plain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kopje/#x1)
- A kopje is a small rocky hill in South Africa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kopje/#x2)
- From the kopje, we could see the whole valley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kopje/#x3)
- The soldiers hid behind a kopje. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kopje/#x4)
- Baboons climbed over the rocks of the kopje. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kopje/#x5)
- The safari truck stopped near a kopje at sunset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kopje/#x6)

### note

Countable: a kopje, kopjes. Pronounced KOP-ee. The «j» is silent, as in Dutch and Afrikaans. Also spelled «koppie». A South African English word.

### In the corpora

- [Serengeti lions rest on rocky outcrops called kopjes, which give them shade, a lookout and safe dens for cubs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kopje» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kopje/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.