Usually means: Linking verb connecting subject, complement.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word copula:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. copula: Merriam-Webster
  2. copula: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. copula: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. copula: Collins English Dictionary
  5. copula: Vocabulary.com
  6. Copula, copula: Wordnik
  7. copula: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. copula: Wiktionary
  9. copula: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. copula: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. copula: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. copula: Dictionary.com
  13. copula: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Copula (linguistics), Copula (music), Copula (probability theory), Copula (statistics), Copula: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Copula: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. copula: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. copula: Rhymezone
  18. Copula: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. copula: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. copula: FreeDictionary.org
  21. copula: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. copula: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. copula: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Copula: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Copula: Investopedia
  2. copula: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. copula: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. copula: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Copula: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. copula: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. copula: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Copula: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. copula: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (linguistics, grammar) A word, usually a verb, used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (usually a subject complement or an adverbial), that unites or associates the subject with the predicate.
noun:  The bond or relationship by which two things are combined into a unity.
noun:  (statistics) A function that represents the association between two or more variables, independent of the individual marginal distributions of the variables.
noun:  (music) A device that connects two or more keyboards of an organ.
noun:  (biology) The act of copulation; mating.

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