cove

«cove» in Mova's school dictionary: A small, sheltered bay on a coastline, with land curving… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a cove, coves)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small, sheltered bay on a coastline, with land curving around it. tree →

2) (old slang, UK, Australia) A man or fellow, as in "a strange cove". tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons it is a coastal landform made where waves wear away soft rock behind harder rock, like Lulworth Cove in England. In adventure stories coves are hiding places for smugglers and pirates. Phrases: "a sheltered cove", "a hidden cove".

examples

• We swam in a quiet little cove. tree →
• Lulworth Cove is shaped like a horseshoe. tree →
• Smugglers hid their boats in the cove. tree →
• The cove was sheltered from the wind. tree →
• Check the tide times before exploring a cove so you don't get cut off. tree →
• "He's a funny old cove," said the farmer. tree →

note

Countable: a cove, coves. A cove is smaller than a bay. The "fellow" sense is old-fashioned slang from Britain and Australia.

In the corpora

• In 1788 the First Fleet of eleven ships brought British convicts and soldiers to Sydney Cove to start a prison colony.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cove» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.