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alcove en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈæl.kəʊv/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈæl.koʊv/ (General-American)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
alcoves Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

alcovelike · alcoved

alcove en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈæl.kəʊv/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈæl.koʊv/ (General-American)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (rare, transitive) To furnish (something) with an alcove or to form an alcovelike recess.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
alcoving Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
alcoves Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
alcoved Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
alcoved Tense=Past lexicographic

Translations (45)

pl nisza (small recessed area) · bg кът (small recessed area) · hy խորշ (small recessed area) · hy անկողնախորշ (small recessed area) · ota حجره (small recessed area) · cs alkovna (small recessed area) · bg ни́ша (small recessed area) · it alcova (small recessed area) · hu hálófülke (small recessed area) · de Alkove (small recessed area) · de Alkoven (small recessed area) · mk ни́ша (small recessed area) · da niche (small recessed area) · pl alkowa (small recessed area) · nl alkoof (small recessed area) · sh ниша (small recessed area) · io alkovo (small recessed area) · es hornacina (small recessed area) · sv alkov (small recessed area) · fi alkovi (small recessed area) · de Alkov (small recessed area) · ca fornícula (small recessed area) · he גֻּמְחָה (small recessed area) · gd pùball (small recessed area) · hu falmélyedés (small recessed area) · ja 壁龕 (small recessed area) · fr alcôve (small recessed area) · da alkove (small recessed area) · it talamo (small recessed area) · pt alcova (small recessed area) · el κόγχη (small recessed area) · it camera da letto (small recessed area) · uk ні́ша (small recessed area) · ru алько́в (small recessed area) · hu alkóv (small recessed area) · sh алков (small recessed area) · ko 반침 (small recessed area) · cmn 壁龕 /壁龛 (small recessed area) · ru ни́ша (small recessed area) · gl alcoba (small recessed area) · fo kovi (small recessed area) · eo alkovo (small recessed area) · uk алько́в (small recessed area) · cs výklenek (small recessed area) · pl wnęka (small recessed area)