Alcove vs. Cove

Alcovenoun

A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

Covenoun

A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.

Alcovenoun

A shady retreat.

‘The house was situated in a leafy alcove.’;

Covenoun

(architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.

Alcovenoun

A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.

Covenoun

A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.

Alcovenoun

A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower.

Covenoun

(US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.

Alcovenoun

Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment.

‘The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove.’;

Covenoun

A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.

Alcovenoun

a small recess opening off a larger room

Covenoun

(nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.

Covenoun

(nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.

Covenoun

A fellow; a man.

Covenoun

A friend; a mate.

Coveverb

(architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.

Coveverb

To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.

Covenoun

A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.

‘Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks.’;

Covenoun

A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.

Covenoun

A concave molding.

Covenoun

A boy or man of any age or station.

‘There's a gentry cove here.’; ‘Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drinkBe not filched from us.’;

Coveverb

To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.

‘The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.’;

Coveverb

To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.

‘Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel.’;

Covenoun

a small inlet

Covenoun

small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain

Cove

A cove is a small type of bay or coastal inlet. Coves usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often situated within a larger bay.