Word Meanings - NOOK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat. How couldst thou find this dark, sequestered nook Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NOOK)

• Corner
• Cavity
• hole
• nook
• recess
• retreat
• Recess
• withdrawal
• retirement
• seclusion
• privacy
• vacation
• holiday

Related words: (words related to NOOK)

• RECESS
  A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be
• RECESSED
  1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch , one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• WITHDRAWAL
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
• RECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
• RECESSION
  The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor.
• RETIREMENT
  1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
• VACATION
  Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess. "With lawyers in the vacation." Shak. The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational
• PRIVACY
  1. The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion. 2. A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement. Her sacred privacies all open lie. Rowe. 3. Concealment of what is said
• CORNERCAP
  The chief ornament. Thou makest the triumviry the cornercap of society. Shak.
• HOLIDAY
  A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday. Note: In the United States legal holidays, so called, are determined by law, commonly by the statutes of the several States. The holidays most generally observed are: the 22d day of
• RECESSIVE
  Going back; receding.
• CORNERWISE
  With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.
• CAVITY
  1. Hollowness. The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin. 2. A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed
• SECLUSION
  The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion. O blest seclusion from a jarring world, which he, thus occupied, enjoys! Cowper. Syn. -- Solitude;
• CORNER
  1. The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal. 2. The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner. 3. An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the
• RETREAT
  retrahere; pref. re- re- + trahere to draw. See Trace, and cf. 1. The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable. In a retreat he oShak. 2. The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy
• CORNERED
  1 Having corners or angles. 2. In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.
• PRECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• SCORNER
  One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion. "Great scorners of death." Spenser. Superly he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Prov. iii. 34.
• FOUR-CORNERED
  Having four corners or angles.
• CATER-CORNERED
  Diagonal.
• POETS' CORNER
  An angle in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, London; -- so called because it contains the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.
• CONCAVITY
  A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.
• BLINDMAN'S HOLIDAY
  The time between daylight and candle light.