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🦈 A small shark 🍻 To drink heavily 🛕 A religious shrine
tope

tope

9.9
A small shark that lives in cool seas or a Buddhist religious monument
  • noun
  • /toʊp/
  • UK
translation icon : tiburón tope
  • Marine biologists study the migration patterns of the tope in temperate seas.

Examples

  • During their trip to India, they visited an ancient tope built centuries ago.

  • The fisherman caught a small tope off the coast.

  • The fisherman was excited to catch a tope off the coast this morning.

  • In South Asia, a tope can refer to a sacred monument.

  • Marine biologists study the unique characteristics of the tope, a small shark found in temperate waters.

  • During their visit to Sri Lanka, they admired a beautiful tope that contained ancient relics.

  • The fisherman was thrilled to catch a large tope while deep-sea fishing off the coast.

Synonyms

chorten
vstope
1 9.9

A Buddhist monument used for prayer and meditation, often found in the Himalayas

covers Buddhist or Jain monuments more broadly across South Asia
Galeorhinus
vstope
  • Specialized
9.9

A group of sharks known as tope or school sharks

refers to an individual small species rather than the whole genus

Surface Forms

tope singular
topes plural

Etymology

Tope has two different stories: one meaning is a small shark, a name that came from old European sea words for a 'small shark', and the other meaning comes from the South Asian word stupa, which meant a 'mound' and became the name for a dome shrine. So tope can mean either a kind of shark or a Buddhist/Jain monument.