44(1--2) (1984), 3--12.P. M. Cohn [6] has defined the notion of a pure submodule. Subsequently C. P. Walker [21], B. StenstrSm [19] and D. P. Choudhury and K. Tewari [5] have introduced notions of copurity as dual to the notion of purity. We find that another notion of copurity for the category of modules using cofinitely related modules is interesting.A submodule A of a right R-module B is said to be copure if for every cofinitely related right R-module M, every R-homomorphism from A into M has an extension to B. Over a commutative (co-)noetherian ring R, every pure submodule of an Rmodule is also copure. If R is a commutative semi-local ring then every copure submodule of an R-module is pure. Hence over a commutative semi-local co-noetherian (equivalently noetherian) ring R purity and copurity are equivalent. We also prove this result for a Dedekind domain. In general neither every pure submodule of a right R-module is copure nor every copure submodute of a right R-module is pure. We compare our copurity with three copurities mentioned above. We generalize a few results for pure submodules over commutative (co-)noetherian rings to copure submodules.Throughout this paper by a ring R we mean .an associative ring with identity and by an R-module we mean a unitary right R-module. mod-R stands for the category of all right R-modules and all R-homomorphisms. D~IFINITIONS 1. (i) An R-module M is said to be finitely embedded [20] (or cofinitely generated [11] (ii) An R-module M is said to be cocyclic [10] ifM is isomorphic to a submodule of E(S) for simple R-module S.(iii) An R-module M is said to be cofree [10] if M is isomorphic to 1-I{E(S,): S~ is a simple R-module, a(I} where I is some index set.(iv) An R-module M is said to be cofinitely related [10] if there is an exact sequence O~M~N--K--O of R-modules with N cofinitely generated, cofree and K cofinitely generated.(v) A ring R is said to be right co-noetherian [11] if every factor module of a cofinitely generated R-module is cofinitely generated.The notion of a pure submodule was first defined by P. M. Cohn