cove
IPA: kˈoʊv
noun
- (now uncommon) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
- (architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
- A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
- (US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
- A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
- (nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
- (nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
- (Appalachia) A valley between two ridges.
- (Britain, dated, informal, thieves' cant, Lewis) A fellow; a man.
- (Australia and Polari) A friend; a mate.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Apache County, Arizona.
- A town in Polk County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
- A minor city in Union County, Oregon.
- A minor city in Chambers County, Texas.
- A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah.
- A small village in Tiverton parish, Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS9519).
- A suburb of Farnborough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8556).
- Three villages in Scotland:
- A coastal village on the Rosneath peninsula, Argyll and Bute council area (OS grid ref NS2282).
- A hamlet on Loch Ewe, Highland council area (OS grid ref NG8090).
- A coastal village near Cockburnspath, Scottish Borders council area (OS grid ref NT7871).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- (Australia, soccer) The Sydney FC fan base.
- Short for Cove Bay, Aberdeen, Scotland. [A suburb in Aberdeen council area, Scotland (OS grid ref SJ9501).]
verb
- (architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) Of a bird or other animal: to brood, cover, incubate, or sit over (eggs).
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Examples of "cove" in Sentences
- Ogo dour Cove is a small cove located at.
- A cove is always a bay but a bay is not always a cove.
- Lynsky Cove is a cove in the north side of the island.
- The Warrenton sewage lagoon effluent drains into the Cove.
- Hector lands the helicopter in the cove where the crocodile lives.
- The head of the cove is occupied by the circular quay ferry terminal.
- Just seven years later the population had reached 102 in Doting Cove.
- Shorenstein was born in 1915 in Glen Cove, New York, son of a clothier.
- The game supposedly became popular in the pirate coves of the Caribbean.
- Ragged Harbour and Doting Cove by 1884 were both almost entirely Methodist.