Synonyms:
corner, nook
Meaning: an interior angle formed by two meeting walls; "a piano was in one corner of the room"
Synonyms:
nook
Meaning: a sheltered and secluded place
Usage examples
They left no nook or corner unexplored.
"Take a look within that nook And tell me what is there."
No practicable nook or cranny, in which a living being could lie concealed, was anywhere at hand.
The window nook made almost a little room in itself, quite the pleasantest room in the farm as far as situation and capabilities went.
Thrusting aside the letter, I followed into the Church, and stood behind the old font where I had been baptized; a dark and gloomy nook, fit for such an entrance.
It looks a wonderfully comfortable little nook, but, of course, one can be certain of nothing in this place; one knows from experience how deceptive the appearance of security may be.
The most interesting fiction we have ever read in this coarse, homely, but genuine class, is one called "Metallek." It may be in circulation in this city; but we bought it in a country nook, and from a pedlar; and it seemed to belong to the country.
Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging, As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been, Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass--innocent, golden, calm as the dawn, The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
She tried a hundred little schemes to get him to herself for a moment--the hunting of a wild flower or a four-leaved clover, or the exploration of some little nook in the forest toward which she would lead him--but Jane did not at first take the hint and kept close at her heels.
Thus, being asleep in a nook behind the metal refuse-can, when the strange cat ventured to ascend the steps of the porch, his appearance was so unwarlike that the cat felt encouraged to extend its field of reconnaissance--for the cook had been careless, and the backbone of a three-pound whitefish lay at the foot of the refuse-can.