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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Apache County, Arizona.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Polk County, Arkansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Union County, Oregon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Chambers County, Texas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A small village in Tiverton parish, Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS9519).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A suburb of Farnborough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8556).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Three villages in Scotland:
A coastal village on the Rosneath peninsula, Argyll and Bute council area (OS grid ref NS2282).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Three villages in Scotland:
A hamlet on Loch Ewe, Highland council area (OS grid ref NG8090).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Three villages in Scotland:
A coastal village near Cockburnspath, Scottish Borders council area (OS grid ref NT7871).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Three villages in Scotland:
Ellipsis of Cove Bay, Aberdeen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
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name
A habitational surname from Old English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
The official active supporters' group of Sydney FC (an Australian soccer club based in Sydney).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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noun
A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
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noun
A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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noun
A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds; bight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Cumbria
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noun
The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A valley between two ridges, especially one that, opening to the south and east, is protected by ridges on the north and west from common winter storm tracks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Appalachia
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noun
Man; fellow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dated
Qualifier: thieves' cant; particularly Lewis; thieves' cant; particularly Lewis
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Synonyms: bloke, boy, bro, broski, bruh, cat, chap, chappy, chield, cove, covey, dog [⇒ thesaurus] (slang), dawg, dude, fella, fellow, gadgie, gate, geezer, gink, gloak, gome, guy, health, homeboy, homey, joe, lede, nigga, ninja, omi, pillicock, punk, rooster, seg, shalk, wallah, wer, were, wye
Antonyms: covess, mort, blone, babe, baggage, bim, bint, bird, bitch, broad, chick, dame, donna, feme, femme, femoid, frau, frow, gal, gash, gentlelady, ginch, hen, ho, huwoman, lady, maness, mulier, placket, pussy, queen, she, sheila, skirt, squaw, thot, tía, twist, vaginoid, wan, wife, woman, wommon, womon, womxn, womyn, wimmin
noun
Friend; mate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Polari
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Synonyms: babber, billy, bredrin, bruv, bud, buddo, buddy, butty, chaver, china, chuck, chum, cock, cocker, cobber, compadre, comrade, companion, cove, crony, dawg, dude, duck, fam, fettler, friend, geez, geezer, gink, good old boy, homeskillet, homie, kith, lover, marrow, mate, matey, mucker, old bean, pal, pardner, peeps, punk, shag, sport, surry, tovarish, wantok
Antonyms: adversary, antagonist, backfriend, bane, bête noire, corrival, enemy, fiend, foe, foeman, unfriend, nemesis, opponent, opposer, rival
verb
To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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verb
Of a bird or other animal: to brood, cover, incubate, or sit over (eggs).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive, obsolete
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Synonyms: covie
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noun
a small inlet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: inlet, recess
Narrower terms: lough
noun
small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cave
History
From Old English cofa (“cave, cove, hollow, cavern”).
From Sydney Cove.
From Middle English cove, from Old English cofa (“chamber; den”), from Proto-West Germanic *kobō, from Proto-Germanic *kubô. Cognate with Dutch koof (“cove”), German Low German Koov (“small room”), German Koben (“nook, shed”), Icelandic kofi (“hut, shack”). This word has probably survived as long as it has due to its coincidental phonetic resemblance to the unrelated word English cave. Also unrelated to Spanish cueva, which itself is a cognate of cave.
Attested in Britain a. 1570, from Romani kodo (“this one, him”, pronounced KOTHO /koðo/, ultimately undergoing th-fronting to KOV /kov/ in English), or perhaps directly from Romani kova (“that person”).
Borrowed from French couver, from Old French cover (“to hatch (eggs)”), from Latin cubāre (“to lie down, recline; to incubate; to be broody”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“to lie down”). Cognates * Italian covare
Across languages
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