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KAYJ/keɪdʒ/

A cage is a box of metal or wooden bars for a bird or a small animal. Countable: a cage, cages. A box is closed with walls, not bars; a nest is what a wild bird builds. Keep the cage clean. Mix-up: cake (food) — different vowel; and cave (a hole in rock).

Meaning

A box of bars for a bird or a small animal.

Examples

• “The budgie is singing in its cage.”
• “The hamster ran in its wheel inside the cage.”
• “Never put your fingers in the tiger's cage.”

Good to know

a cage (bars). Contrast: box (solid walls), nest (wild bird). Mix-up: cake, cave.

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