I found an alcove with a statue of a Hindu deity.
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Alcove
//ˈæl.kəʊv//
Synonyms for "alcove" (34 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (17)
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Translations
44 translations across 29 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- անկողնախորշ noun (small recessed area)
- խորշ noun (small recessed area)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кът noun (small recessed area)
- ни́ша noun (small recessed area)
Catalan
1 entries- fornícula noun (small recessed area)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 壁龕 /壁龛 noun (small recessed area)
Czech
2 entries- alkovna noun (small recessed area)
- výklenek noun (small recessed area)
Danish
2 entries- alkove noun (small recessed area)
- niche noun (small recessed area)
Dutch
1 entries- alkoof noun (small recessed area)
Esperanto
1 entries- alkovo noun (small recessed area)
Faroese
1 entries- kovi noun (small recessed area)
Finnish
1 entries- alkovi noun (small recessed area)
French
1 entries- alcôve noun (small recessed area)
Galician
1 entries- alcoba noun (small recessed area)
German
3 entries- Alkov noun (small recessed area)
- Alkove noun (small recessed area)
- Alkoven noun (small recessed area)
Greek
1 entries- κόγχη noun (small recessed area)
Hebrew
1 entries- גֻּמְחָה noun (small recessed area)
Hungarian
3 entries- alkóv noun (small recessed area)
- falmélyedés noun (small recessed area)
- hálófülke noun (small recessed area)
Ido
1 entries- alkovo noun (small recessed area)
Italian
3 entries- alcova noun (small recessed area)
- camera da letto noun (small recessed area)
- talamo noun (small recessed area)
Japanese
1 entries- 壁龕 noun (small recessed area)
Korean
1 entries- 반침 noun (small recessed area)
Macedonian
1 entries- ни́ша noun (small recessed area)
Polish
3 entries- alkowa noun (small recessed area)
- nisza noun (small recessed area)
- wnęka noun (small recessed area)
Portuguese
1 entries- alcova noun (small recessed area)
Russian
2 entries- алько́в noun (small recessed area)
- ни́ша noun (small recessed area)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- pùball noun (small recessed area)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- алков noun (small recessed area)
- ниша noun (small recessed area)
Spanish
1 entries- hornacina noun (small recessed area)
Swedish
1 entries- alkov noun (small recessed area)
Ukrainian
2 entries- алько́в noun (small recessed area)
- ні́ша noun (small recessed area)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
An alcove is useful for storing things.
Source: tatoeba (2895076)
The apartment has an alcove.
Source: tatoeba (9915796)
Night after night, for two years, in a secret alcove on a bridge connecting Delancey Street in lower Manhattan with Brooklyn, Rollins, then 29, practiced the fundamentals of his saxophone.
Source: tatoeba (12113757)
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