cage
An enclosure made of spaced bars, normally to hold animals while providing some ventilation.
Example
“We keep a bird in a cage.”
Other meanings
The passenger compartment of a lift.
a protective structure around the passenger compartment of a vehicle.
A kind of
- enclosure
Kinds of cage
- squirrel cage
Related words
- cagebelle
- cagebird
- cageful
- cageless
- cagelike
- cagemate
- cager
- cagewash
- cagework
- decage
- discage
- encage
Word history
From Latin "cavea".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cage” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.