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English

Etymology

ape +? -ery

Noun

apery (countable and uncountable, plural aperies)

1. A place where apes are kept.
   • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies Chapter 4

     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.

2. The practice of aping; an apish action.

   • 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Payer, Peary, payer, peary, praye, rapey, repay

English

Etymology

From Middle English apert, from Old French apert and Latin apertus, past participle of aperire. Doublet of overt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p??(?)t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Adjective

apert

1. (archaic) open; uncovered; revealed

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fotherby to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Peart, Petra, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

French

Etymology

From Latin apertus (“open”). Doublet of ouvert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.p??/
• Homophone: aperts

Adjective

apert (feminine singular aperte, masculine plural aperts, feminine plural apertes)

1. (archaic, literary) clear, manifest, obvious

Further reading

• “apert” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).