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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cove/#m1)

2) (old slang, UK, Australia) A man or fellow, as in "a strange cove". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cove/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cove/#x1)
- Lulworth Cove is shaped like a horseshoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cove/#x2)
- Smugglers hid their boats in the cove. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cove/#x3)
- The cove was sheltered from the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cove/#x4)
- Check the tide times before exploring a cove so you don't get cut off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cove/#x5)
- "He's a funny old cove," said the farmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cove/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cove» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cove/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.