If you say that someone is cocooned, you mean that they are isolated and protected from everyday life and problems. She was cocooned in a private world of privilege They were cocooned from the experience of poverty. = cloistered
If someone is cocooned in blankets or clothes, they are completely wrapped in them. She is comfortably cocooned in pillows. my snugly cocooned baby sleeping in his pram
If you are living in a cocoon, you are in an environment in which you feel protected and safe, and sometimes isolated from everyday life. You cannot live in a cocoon and overlook these facts
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"
silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs wrap in or as if in a cocoon, as for protection retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment; "Families cocoon around the T
The housing spun by the silkworm from the silk thread A good cocoon contains about 3,000 to 4,000 m thread, of which, however, only about 500 to 900 m may be wound off as an even thread
The egg-shaped immature form of a mushroom, usually as it erupts from the ground, especially in the Amanita genus It is surrounded by the universal veil
If something cocoons you from something, it protects you or isolates you from it. There is nowhere to hide when things go wrong, no organisation to cocoon you from blame The playwright cocooned himself in a world of pretence. to protect or surround someone or something completely, especially so that they feel safe be cocooned in sth
An XML publishing framework written in Java on top of DOM (rsp SAX) and XSL Cocoon at the Apache XML Project Cocoon2 , a redesign of Cocoon using SAX as its API instead of DOM