NOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nook mean? 

• NOOK (noun)
  The noun NOOK has 2 senses:

1. a sheltered and secluded place

2. an interior angle formed by two meeting walls

  Familiarity information: NOOK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOOK (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An interior angle formed by two meeting walls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

corner; nook

Context example:

a piano was in one corner of the room

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)

 Context examples 

He did not see it till it shot up in his face from its rocky nook.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He is, to some faded courts held in Doctors' Commons,—a lazy old nook near St. Paul's Churchyard—what solicitors are to the courts of law and equity.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Joe being still absent, Martin procured a Sunday paper and lay down in a shady nook under the trees.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I packed up my chemical instruments and the materials I had collected, resolving to finish my labours in some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I carry them with me in my country walks, and where I see a fruitful nook I thrust one deep with the end of my cane.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Through the glass paneling I caught a glimpse of a large and luxurious room, in which a considerable number of men were sitting about and reading papers, each in his own little nook.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus, in the early morning, instead of roaming and foraging, or lying in a sheltered nook, he would wait for hours on the cheerless cabin-stoop for a sight of the god's face.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You must go into the drawing- room while it is empty, before the ladies leave the dinner-table; choose your seat in any quiet nook you like; you need not stay long after the gentlemen come in, unless you please: just let Mr. Rochester see you are there and then slip away—nobody will notice you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a rather pretty little picture, for the sisters sat together in the shady nook, with sun and shadow flickering over them, the aromatic wind lifting their hair and cooling their hot cheeks, and all the little wood people going on with their affairs as if these were no strangers but old friends.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

While the Martian environment is considered harsh for many organisms, that’s not necessarily the case for all of them—particularly microbes that might be hiding within the nooks and crannies of a robotic explorer.

(NASA Weighs Use of Rover to Image Potential Mars Water Sites, NASA)