Cage

Meaning of Cage

Cage unfurls like a windswept banner across the tapestry of English heritage, its roots sinking into Old French cage and the even older Latin cavea—an enclosure that both shelters and beckons to escape. In its single-syllable strength, it holds the warmth of a hearth’s iron grate and the thrill of a key poised at the brink of freedom, as if every bearer were destined to guard dreams as well as to shatter boundaries. To Italians, it might evoke the gentle click of Venetian shutters at dusk, a promise of secret gardens beyond stone walls; to cinephiles, a playful nod to Nicolas Cage’s fearless performances; to music lovers, an echo of John Cage’s daring silences. Yet beneath these storied associations, the name remains eminently personal—laying a tender claim on a boy’s future, where he might both cradle his own hopes and fling wide the gate to unimaginable horizons.

Pronunciation

American English

  • Pronunced as KAYJ (/keɪdʒ/)

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