Nook

Definitions: Nook

Nook

Noun

1. A sheltered and secluded place.

2. An interior angle formed be two meeting walls; "a piano was in one corner of the room".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nook" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Nook \Nook\, noun. [from Old English expression nok; compare to Gaelic Ir. niuc.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Nook

Angularity

Corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel, coign.

Place

Noun: place, lieu, spot, point, dot; niche, nook; (corner); hole; pigeonhole; (receptacle); compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode; locality; (situation).

Receptacle

Compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, recess, nook; crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel; cave; (concavity).

Crosswords: Nook

Maya (clothing).

And then they found a little nook in a stable all forlorn, (Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord; performing artist: Boney M)

Rookery Nook (1953)

Cookery Nook (1951)

Rookery Nook (1930)

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Books

• A Nook Under the Bridge (reference)

• Farm Recipes and Food Secrets from the Norske Nook (reference)

• Gifts of the Earth Note Nook Calendar (reference)

• Great Cityscapes of the World Note Nook Calendar (reference)

• Hags Nook (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Nook [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Blackbar soldierfish huddle within a coral reef nook. Myripristus jacobus.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

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Guided by this sound he came to a sort of triangular nook built under the stairs, or, rather, formed by the staircase itself.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "nook": a shady nook ♦ Ingle nook ♦ nook and cranny ♦ search every nook and cranny ♦ sheltered nook. Additional references.

Beginning with "nook": Nook-shotten, nook-window.

Ending with "nook": ingle-nook.

Albanian

vend i fshehtë (cache, concealment, hide, hiding place, penetralia, recess), strehë e sigurt, qoshe (bevel, corner), liman (basin, bay, blight, cove, fleet, Harbor, harbour, haven, port), cep (bight, cusp, horn, projection, prominence, prominency, snick, tip). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكان منعزل, ‏زاوية (angle, corner, oratory), ‏خلوة (recess, sanctum), ‏إعتزال (resignation, seclusion), ‏ركن (corner, niche, shunt). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ъгълче (back street), ъгъл (angle, corner), скрито местенце (back street), кътче (nest, recess), кът. (various references)

Chinese 

�'落 (Quoin). (various references)

Czech

koutek (corner, inglenook, ingle-nook, niche), kout (angle, corner, forge, strike, weave), ústraní (retirement, seclusion). (various references)

Farsi 

قطعه زمین پیش امده , گوشه (Angle, Corner, Jest, Lobe, Quip, Recess), برامدگی (Bulge, Bump, Burr, Ganglion, Knob, Ledge, Mound, Nub, Outgrwth, Overhang, Projection, Ridge, Stigma, Tumor). (various references)

Finnish

nurkka (angle, corner), sopukka (corner, cranny, recess), soppi (beak, corner, peak, recess), loukko (corner, cranny). (various references)

French

retraite, recoin, coin. (various references)

German

schlupfwinkel (hideout, hiding place, nest, quiet corner, recess, retreat), ecke (angle, corner, edge, node, point, turning, vertex, wedge). (various references)

Greek 

κοχή (corner, edge), κοίλωμα (bootleg, cavity, concavity, deformation, dent, sinus, socket, wane), γωνιά (niche), άκρα (extremes, outskirts, rand). (various references)

Hebrew 

משקעת (alcove, niche), מחבוא (cache, hideout, hiding place), פ� �" (corner, niche, pinnacle, turn, turret). (various references)

Hungarian

zug (corner, recess), sarok (angle, cant, coign, corner, heel, pole), bemélyedés (bay, dent, indenture, lap, recess, trough). (various references)

Italian

ripostiglio (catchall, closet, locker, lumber room, staging area), cantuccio (aangles, angle, corner, Cubby), angolo (angle, bevel, corner, extrusion), angolino. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

隅 (copper, corner), 片隅 (corner), 一隅 (corner). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すみ (arranged, charcoal, corner, ink, settled, taken care of), ひとすみ (corner), かたすみ (corner), いちぐう (corner, one meeting), へきぐう (corner). (various references)

Korean 

길체. (various references)

Manx

cooilley, cooilleig (inside corner), cooill (hidingplace, niche). (various references)

Pig Latin

ooknay

Portuguese

talharim (noodles), escaninho, canto (angle, brink, brow, cantation, canthi, canthus, canto, cantus, chant, corner, descant, edge, melody, song). (various references)

Romanian

vãgãunã (gorge, gully, hollow, ravine), ungher (angle, corner, nest, niche, spot), colţ (aiguille, angle, cliff, corner, Fang, nest, quoin, spot, stump, tooth, tusk), ascunziş (concealment, den, fold, hiding place, lurch, secret, shelter). (various references)

Russian 

закоулок (back street, corner, cranny). (various references)

Scottish

cùil (angle, closet, corner, niche, recess). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ugao (angle, corner, quoin), ćošak (corner, quoin). (various references)

Spanish

rincón (corner). (various references)

Swedish

vrå (angle, corner, recess), hörn (angle, corner, quoin). (various references)

Thai

มุม (angle, aspect). (various references)

Turkish

kuytu yer (dell, sheltered nook, snuggery), kuytu (corner, cranny, hidden, Lee, obscure, quiet, retired, sheltered, snug), köşe (angle, corner, gonio-, quarter, turning). (various references)

Turkmen 

зьсk (angle, corner). (various references)

Ukranian 

куток (corner, niche), глухе місце, глушина (back country, back-blocks, desert, wasteness), затишне містечко, закуток (corner, pigeonhole), бухточка, пристановище (accommodation, asylum, charity, harborage, harbourage, haunt, resort), притулок (accommodation, asylum, bield, chimney, cover, harbour, niche, port, purlieu, refuge, sanctuary, shelter, subterfuge, succor, succour). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xó, góc. (various references)

Welsh

cilfach (bay, creek), bachell (clutch, corner, snare), bach (bend, corner, diminutive, hinge, hook, little, small). (various references)

ub. (various references)

anguli, angulis, angulo, angulorum, angulos, angulum, angulus. (various references)

nicchia. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "nook": nookies, nooklike, nooks, nooky. (additional references)

Words ending with "nook": chinook, inglenook, schnook, shnook, snook. (additional references)

Words containing "nook": chinooks, inglenooks, schnooks, shnooks, snooked, snooker, snookered, snookering, snookers, snooking, snooks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nook" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anook, Cnooc, dook, inok, Inouk, knook, naoi, naom, Ncoic, neoz, neuk, nioh, Njoka, noak, nobo, Noc, noec, Nogos, Noho, Noic, nok, noka, Nokka, nolo, Nonoc, noo, noob, nooc, nooch, nood, noof, noog, nooh, nooi, nooke, nooki, nool, noom, noor, Noot, Nootka, noow, Nork, noro, Norov, nosk, noua, nouv, noux, Nouy, nouz, npo, Nuc, Nujol, Nuk, Nuvoc, Ojok, Onkom, ono, ook, Wojoik, yook, zook. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: noo.

-2 letters: no, on.

+1 letter: kroon, nooks, nooky, snook.

+2 letters: kimono, kronor, krooni, kroons, shnook, snooks, unhook.

+3 letters: bonnock, bookend, booking, bookman, bookmen, boomkin, bowknot, chinook, convoke, cooking, dornock, hooking, inkwood, kiloton, kimonos, looking, nonbook, nonwork, nookies, omikron, rockoon, rooking, schnook, shnooks, snooked, snooker, topknot, unhooks.

+4 letters: bankbook, bobolink, bonnocks, bontebok, bookends, bookings, boomkins, boondock, bowknots, brooking, chinooks, convoked, convoker, convokes, cookings, coonskin, crooking, doorknob, dornocks, folksong, foreknow, handbook, hoodwink, hooknose, hornbook, hymnbook, inkwoods, ironwork, kakemono, kangaroo, kenotron, kilotons, kimonoed, kinghood, kingwood, knockoff, knockout, knothole, komondor, kotowing, lockdown, lookdown, makimono, monkhood, moonlike, moonwalk, nainsook, nonbooks, nooklike, notebook, omikrons, onlooker, openwork, pinkroot, rockoons, schnooks, snookers, snooking, songbook, spooking, stooking, tokonoma, topknots, townfolk, uncooked, unhooked, woolskin, yokozuna.

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