Alcove

//ˈæl.kəʊv// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

    "It was very different from such bookstores as he had been accustomed to patronize. Two stories of the old house had been thrown into one: the lower space was divided into little alcoves; above, a gallery ran round the wall, which carried books to the ceiling."

  2. 2
    a small recess opening off a larger room wordnet
  3. 3
    A shady retreat.

    "The house was situated in a leafy alcove."

  4. 4
    The geographical and geological term for a steep-sided hollow in the side of an exposed rock face or cliff of a homogeneous rock type, that was water eroded. countable

Etymology

From French alcôve, from Spanish alcoba or Portuguese alcova, from Arabic القُبَّة (al-qubba, “vault, chamber with vaulted roof”). Doublet of qubba.

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