How to pronounce “alcove”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.
• A shady retreat.
• (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.

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