Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: nook
IPA transcription: [n'ʊk]
noun meaning of the word
  • 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.