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canopy

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A covering or shelter, often a cloth or decorative roof-like covering.

Detailed Definition
In older or literary usage, a canopy can mean a covering stretched overhead, especially something that suggests shelter, grandeur, or enclosure. Here it appears in a spiritual image of the sky as a vast covering: “the golden canopy of thine evening sky.”
Example
Example in poetry:
“I stand under the golden canopy of thine evening sky,” uses canopy figuratively for the heavens; “Beech leaves made a green canopy over the path,” gives the word its literal forest sense; Keats’s “embalmed darkness” suggests a sheltering canopy of night; “Under the canopy of protest signs, we found rain and resolve,” extends the image to a gathered crowd
Additional Notes
In the quoted line, “canopy” is used in a literary sense for an overhead covering, which may be less familiar than its everyday modern meaning.; Found in the poem, In Desperate Hope by Rabindranath Tagore
Also Known As
Awning Cover Shade
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