Apery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Apery is a noun meaning A place where apes are kept.
Meaning
A place where apes are kept.
More Meanings
- The practice of aping (copying)
- apish behavior.
Example Sentences
If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.
Every object, whether the growth of nature or the work of man, was neat and artificial. It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery.
Word Forms
- aperies
Synonyms for apery
Depending on context, synonyms include mimicry.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mimicry, imitation, apiary, monkey-house, menagerie, apsis.
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