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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cocoon
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
spin
▪ It is like the mind spinning a cocoon around the I and Thou.
▪ Most towns had a plant or two to spin locally produced cocoons into thread.
▪ The ants' larvae possess silk glands with which they spin their own pupal cocoons.
▪ By contrast, all of the parasites gained access to the larvae before they spun cocoons.
▪ The caterpillar had probably fed for a month or more on the viburnum leaves before spinning its elaborate double cocoon.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the cocoon of our hotel room
▪ These children live outside the cocoon of the middle class.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Annie felt her hand enclosed in a warm cocoon of talcum powder and smooth baby skin.
▪ But it was clear to all that the then Massachusetts governor would have fit snugly into the capital cocoon.
▪ He had rolled through childhood in a warm cocoon of love provided by endless cousins, uncles, aunts and servants.
▪ I dangled for three days and three nights in a cocoon of ropes from the rafters in the attic.
▪ Some species attach the cocoons to stones underwater and others carry the cocoons with them until the young hatch.
▪ The silken cocoons of these two other moths are tough roundish structures built inside leaves rolled together.
▪ Their many tiny cocoons now completely filled the moth cocoon.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Pheiffer warns that we should not cocoon our daughters, even if it were possible.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cocoon

Cocoon \Co*coon"\, n. [F. cocon, dim. of coque shell of egge and insects, fr. L. concha mussel shell. See Conch.]

  1. An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.

  2. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.

    2. The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.

    3. The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cocoon

1690s, from Middle French coucon (16c., Modern French cocon), from coque "clam shell, egg shell, nut shell" (7c.), from Old French coque "shell," from Latin coccum "berry," from Greek kokkos "berry, seed" (see cocco-). The sense of "one's interior comfort place" is from 1986. Also see -oon.

cocoon

1986, "to stay inside and be inactive," from coccoon (n.).\n\nA lady with an enchanting name, Faith Popcorn, has identified a menacing new American behavior that she gives the sweet name of 'cocooning.' It threatens the nation's pursuit of happiness, sometimes called the economy.

[George Will, April 1987]

\nRelated: Cocooned; cocooning.
Wiktionary
cocoon

n. 1 The silky protective case spun by the larva of some insects and moths in which they metamorphose, the pup

  1. 2 Any similar protective case, whether real or metaphorical. v

  2. To envelop in a protective case, or to withdraw into such a case.

WordNet
cocoon

  1. n. silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs

  2. v. retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment; "Families cocoon around the T.V. set most evenings"; "She loves to stay at home and cocoon"

  3. wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection

Wikipedia
CoCoon

CoCoon is a leading entreprenuership community, business incubator, and resource platform for Hong Kong startups, gathering several hundred entrepreneurs working in various industries. It provides shared office space to carefully selected startup companies, offers support and networks of potential partners and investors, and organizes regular startup events. CoCoon is privately owned and run as a social enterprise.

CoCoon was featured by Forbes, together with AcceleratorHK, among the tech coworking spaces in Hong Kong.

Cocoon (band)

Cocoon is a French pop folk band from Clermont-Ferrand that sings in English. They were founded in 2006 by Mark Daumail (born 6 December 1984) and keyboardist Morgane Imbeaud (born 14 April 1987). On stage they are generally accompanied by Raphaël Séguinier (drums) and Oliver Smith (bass).

Cocoon (Meg & Dia album)

Cocoon is the fourth and final studio album by Meg & Dia.

Cocoon (Chara album)

is the 15th (16th overall) studio album by Chara, which was released on October 31, 2012. Cocoon was released in two versions: a limited edition CD+DVD version as well as a regular CD Only version.

The album was preceded by three singles: " Alterna Girlfriend", " Planet" and." Chouchou Musubi". "Planet" was used as the Sony "BRAVIA" commercial song and "Chouchou MusubI" was used as the theme song for the animated movie Fuse: Teppo Musume no Torimonocho.

Cocoon (Pandelis Karayorgis album)

Cocoon is an album by jazz pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, which was recorded in 2012 and released on Driff, an artist-run label co-founded by Karayorgis and Jorrit Dijkstra. It was the debut recording of his trio with bassist Jef Charland and drummer Luther Gray.

Cocoon (club)

Cocoon was a Techno club in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It had a space for 1.500 visitors. It consisted of two restaurants, multiple lounge spaces, bars and little Cocoons made out of sofas which were placed inside the walls. The club was unique by architecture and design also by the dancing floors. It was closed on 30 November 2012. It was replaced by the club moon13 on the same location.

Cocoon (film)

Cocoon is a 1985 American science fiction fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard about a group of elderly people rejuvenated by aliens. The movie stars Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, and Linda Harrison. The film is loosely based on the novel of the same name by David Saperstein.

The film was shot in and around St. Petersburg, Florida: locations included the St Petersburg Shuffleboard Club, Sunny Shores Rest Home, The Coliseum, and Snell Arcade buildings. The film earned two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor ( Don Ameche) and for Best Visual Effects.

A sequel, Cocoon: The Return, was released in 1988 in which almost all of the original cast reprised their roles.

Cocoon (Björk song)

"Cocoon" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer Björk for her 2001 studio album Vespertine. It was written and produced by Björk and Thomas Knak, and released as the album's third single on 11 March 2002, by One Little Indian Records. Inspired by her relationship with artist Matthew Barney, Björk set to make a record with a domestic mood. Working with Knak, she wrote "Cocoon", a glitch song which is lyrically a song about a woman who describes making love with her lover during their post-coital hibernation, and includes frank sexual narrative related both explicitly and through over-sharing and metaphor.

The single peaked at number 35 on the UK Singles Chart.

Usage examples of "cocoon".

All during the outbound journey he snuggled within the confines of the Salyut living quarters as if it were a cocoon woven of steel and aerogel and glass within which struggled a caterpillar named Jimmy Poole.

It felt like one moment my father was what he had been forever a journalist hanging around training grounds hoping for a few exclusive grunts from twenty-year-old footballers on thirty grand a week, and the next he was a bestselling author, cocooned by six-figure royalty cheques, regularly appearing on the artier kind of talk shows, getting recognised in restaurants.

Each morning for the past nine years Torlyri had made the same journey, when the silent signal came through the eye of the hatch to tell her that the sun had entered the sky: out of the cocoon by the sky-side, up and up through the interior of the cliff along the winding maze of steep narrow corridors that led toward the crest, and at last to the flat area at the top, the Place of Going Out, where she would perform the rite that was her most important responsibility to the People.

Torlyri wondered how long they lived, those who came forth from the cocoon when their appointed death-day at last arrived.

He came upon her in a far corner of the cocoon and beckoned to her, and held her, and stroked her dark fur, and at last she understood what it was he wanted to do.

In the central portion of the room, apron-clad journeymen sculptors worked singly and in pairs, tending the cocoons from which automata were hatched.

I tacked the valentine to his corkboard and rearranged his cocoon of blankets.

The cultist lay wrapped in a cocoon of sticky white strands with only his head and neck exposed.

Then the rituals of deconsecration of the cocoon had had to be carried out, so that they would not leave their souls behind on the long march to come.

Then, as there was a mountain chill in the morning air, he crawled back into bed, hauling his night cap over his generous ears and rolling himself in a cocoon of featherbeds, until he should emerge about noon, like some sleek, fat moth.

But then a wave of torpor insinuated itself as a last vestige of the chemical washed across his forebrain, sinuous molecules urging sleep, a resumption of the comforting nothin ness that took away the fear of being cocooned like this.

Cocoons of leeches and other unidentifiable creatures clustered thick on the trunks, like pale, bloated leaves.

He referred to this, his lifework, as the Cocoon, and to himself as the Cocoonist.

He went through the sacrament of trimming, moistening, and lighting it, and then he held it out in the dark so that he could admire the big fat glowing tip while allowing the aroma of fine Cuban longleaf to surround him like a cocoon of elegance and satisfaction.

A displacement of the assemblage point beyond the midline of the cocoon of man makes the entire world we know vanish from our view in one instant, as if it had been erased--for the stability, the substantiality, that seems to belong to our perceivable world is just the force of alignment.