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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An interior angle formed by two meeting walls
Example:
a piano was in one corner of the room
Synonyms:
corner; nook
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("nook" is a kind of...):
area (a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nook"):
amen corner (area reserved for persons leading the responsive 'amens')
chimney corner; inglenook (a corner by a fireplace)
Holonyms ("nook" is a part of...):
building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A sheltered and secluded place
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("nook" is a kind of...):
retreat (a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet)
Context examples:
His was a fluid organism, swiftly adjustable, capable of flowing into and filling all sorts of nooks and crannies.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was lined with hardtack; the mattress was stuffed with hardtack; every nook and cranny was filled with hardtack.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It was furnished partly as a sitting and partly as a bedroom, with flowers arranged daintily in every nook and corner.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The girl met him at the door, helped to relieve him of his burden, and taking some of the fuel into the cottage, placed it on the fire; then she and the youth went apart into a nook of the cottage, and he showed her a large loaf and a piece of cheese.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
As I sat in my usual nook, and looked at him with the light of the girandoles on the mantelpiece beaming full over him—for he occupied an arm-chair drawn close to the fire, and kept shrinking still nearer, as if he were cold, I compared him with Mr. Rochester.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When I got to the office, and, shutting out old Tiffey and the rest of them with my hands, sat at my desk, in my own particular nook, thinking of this earthquake that had taken place so unexpectedly, and in the bitterness of my spirit cursing Jip, I fell into such a state of torment about Dora, that I wonder I did not take up my hat and rush insanely to Norwood.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Every shadowy nook, where seats invited one to stop and rest, was a mass of bloom, every cool grotto had its marble nymph smiling from a veil of flowers and every fountain reflected crimson, white, or pale pink roses, leaning down to smile at their own beauty.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
About life and the books he knew more than they, and he wondered into what nooks and crannies they had cast aside their educations.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
No nook in the grounds more sheltered and more Eden-like; it was full of trees, it bloomed with flowers: a very high wall shut it out from the court, on one side; on the other, a beech avenue screened it from the lawn.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It seemed to be all old nooks and corners; and in every nook and corner there was some queer little table, or cupboard, or bookcase, or seat, or something or other, that made me think there was not such another good corner in the room; until I looked at the next one, and found it equal to it, if not better.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
