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cage

/keɪd͡ʒ/noun, verb1 syllable

Cage means: United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992).

Synonyms for cage5

noun, as in United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)

John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.

noun, as in an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

noun, as in a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice

batting cage

verb, as in confine in a cage

cage in

What does cage mean?6

noun

1

United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)

2

an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept

3

a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice

4

something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement

5

the net that is the goal in ice hockey

verb

1

confine in a cage“The animal was caged”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with cage?12

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Cage in a sentence

  • There's a bird singing in the cage, isn't there?CK
  • To the bird, a simple branch is preferable to a golden cage.tinowls
  • Fancies are like shadows . . . you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.Hybrid
  • After opening its cage, my parakeet flew away.Missy_Hissy
  • Someone left the lion's cage door are open, and the lion escaped.CK
  • When we checked this morning, the cage was empty.CK
  • Would a toaster, that's unable to move, mind being locked in a cage?DJ_Saidez
  • There are birds singing in the cage, aren't there?CK

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of cage

as a noun

plural
cages

as a verb

past tense
caged
present participle
caging
third-person singular
cages
past participle
caged