Cockpit

Quick meaning: Cockpit is a noun meaning (now chiefly historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting.

Meaning

(now chiefly historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, obsolete) A theater or other entertainment venue.
2. (figurative) A site of conflict; a battlefield.
3. (Jamaica) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes.
4. (nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located.
5. The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile).
6. (nautical, now historical) The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay.
7. (vulgar) The vagina.

Example Sentences

India became the cockpit in which it was shown that trade was war carried on under another name.

A cockpit, which was still used for cock-fighting during the Napoleonic Wars, used to occupy the site of the vicarage.

The Cockpit or Phoenix Theatre in Drury Lane stood in the parish of St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, on what is now Pitt-place—properly Cockpit-place or Alley.

Cockfighting has been banned during the virus outbreak. Before the pandemic, it was allowed only in licensed cockpits on Sundays and legal holidays, as well as during local fiestas lasting a maximum of three days[…]

Word Forms

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Synonyms for cockpit

Depending on context, synonyms include office.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cab, carrier, gondola, bridge, steering, flying.

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