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cageful

cageful

3.7
A container that holds animals or small things
  • noun
  • /ˈkeɪdʒfəl/
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  • She bought a cageful of birds from the pet store.

Examples

  • He carried a cageful of mice to the laboratory for the experiment.

  • The pet store received a cageful of colorful parrots this morning.

  • After the rescue, volunteers released a cageful of injured birds back into the wild.

  • How many cagefuls of rabbits do you have?

  • The zookeeper transferred a cageful of parrots to the new aviary.

  • We found a cageful of kittens waiting for adoption at the shelter.

  • During the fair, we saw a cageful of birds that were for sale.

Synonyms

crateful
vscageful
6.4

An amount that fits in a crate

refers to the number that fills a mesh enclosure, often animals

How Many

many
9 1.0
cageful
3.7
several
∞ 1.0
few
∞ 1.0
none
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

cageful singular
cagefuls plural

Morphology

cageful = cage (transparent) = cage + ful

The noun is a straightforward formation from 'cage' + '-ful' meaning 'as much as a cage can hold', a pattern learners readily generalize from examples like 'handful' or 'cupful'.

Etymology

The word cageful comes from cage plus the ending -ful, where -ful means 'full of' as in handful or cupful. So a cageful is the amount or number that fills a cage.