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alcoves

alcoves is the plural of alcove.

alcoves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of alcove.

Meaning of alcove

Noun

alcove (plural alcoves)

  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.1919, Christopher Morley, “The Haunted Bookshop”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 4
  2. A shady retreat.
    • The house was situated in a leafy alcove.
  3. (countable) 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.

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Questions about alcoves

What is alcoves the plural of?
Alcoves is the plural of alcove.

Words near alcoves in the dictionary

  1. Alcottian
  2. Alcotts
  3. alcove
  4. alcoved
  5. alcovelike
  6. alcoves
  7. alcoving
  8. alcoxyl
  9. alcoxyls
  10. Alcoy
  11. Alcozauca de Guerrero

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