Usually means: Small, sheltered bay or inlet.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. cove: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cove, cove: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cove, cove: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cove: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cove: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cove, cove: Wordnik
  7. cove: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cove, cove: Wiktionary
  9. cove: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cove: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cove: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cove, cove: Dictionary.com
  13. cove: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cove: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cove (Appalachian Mountains), Cove (disambiguation), Cove (standing stones), Cove, The Cove (film), The Cove (novel), The Cove: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cove: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cove: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cove: Rhymezone
  19. Cove: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cove: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Cove: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. cove: Free Dictionary
  23. cove: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. cove: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. cove: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. cove: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cove (disambiguation), cove: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. COVE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cove: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cove: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Cove: Latitude Mexico

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noun:  (now uncommon) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
noun:  (architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
noun:  A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
noun:  (US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
noun:  A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
noun:  (nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
noun:  (nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
noun:  (Appalachia) A valley between two ridges.
verb:  (architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
noun:  (British, dated, informal, thieves' cant, Lewis) A fellow; a man.
noun:  (Australia and Polari) A friend; a mate.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) Of a bird or other animal: to brood, cover, incubate, or sit over (eggs).
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Apache County, Arizona.
noun:  A town in Polk County, Arkansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
noun:  A minor city in Union County, Oregon.
noun:  A minor city in Chambers County, Texas.
noun:  A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah.
noun:  A small village in Tiverton parish, Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS9519).
noun:  A suburb of Farnborough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8556).
noun:  Three villages in Scotland:
noun:  A coastal village on the Rosneath peninsula, Argyll and Bute council area (OS grid ref NS2282).
noun:  A hamlet on Loch Ewe, Highland council area (OS grid ref NG8090).
noun:  A coastal village near Cockburnspath, Scottish Borders council area (OS grid ref NT7871).
noun:  A habitational surname from Old English.
noun:  (Australia, soccer) The official active supporters' group of Sydney FC (an Australian soccer club based in Sydney).
noun:  Short for Cove Bay, Aberdeen. [A suburb in Aberdeen council area, Scotland (OS grid ref SJ9501).]

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