Cove

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small sheltered bay in the shoreline of a sea, river, or lake.
  • n. A recess or small valley in the side of a mountain.
  • n. A cave or cavern.
  • n. A narrow gap or pass between hills or woods.
  • n. Architecture A concave molding.
  • n. Architecture A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall. Also called coving.
  • v. To make in an inward curving form.
  • n. Chiefly British A fellow; a man.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A fellow; a man.
  • n. A friend; a mate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
  • n. A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.
  • n.
  • n. A concave molding.
  • n. A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
  • v. To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
  • v. To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
  • n. A boy or man of any age or station.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small inlet, creek, or bay; a recess or nook in the shore of any considerable body of water.
  • n. Hence A hollow, nook, or recess in a mountain, or among mountains.
  • n. In architecture, a concavity; any kind of concave molding; the hollow of a vault.
  • n. In ship-building, a curved or arched molding at the bottom of the taffrail. An elliptical molding above it was called the arch of the cove.
  • To arch over.
  • To brood, cover, or sit over.
  • n. A man; a person; a fellow: generally preceded by some adjective: as, an old cove; a rum cove; a flash cove, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small inlet
  • n. small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
  • Verb Form
    coved    coves    coving   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cave   
    Form
    coved    coving    Abram cove    bang up cove    badge-cove   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dove    Grove    Hove    Nov    Soave    bove    dove    drove    gove    grove   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    inlet    creek    harbour    nook    lagoon    headland    estuary    ravine    bay    peninsula