alcove

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈæl.kəʊv/    美 /ˈæl.koʊv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A shady retreat.
    — The house was situated in a leafy alcove.
  3. 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. countable

词形变化

alcoves plural

词汇关系

衍生词
alcoved

词源

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