NOOKS AND CRANNIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nooks and crannies mean? 

• NOOKS AND CRANNIES (noun)
  The noun NOOKS AND CRANNIES has 1 sense:

1. something remote

  Familiarity information: NOOKS AND CRANNIES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOOKS AND CRANNIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something remote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

nook and cranny; nooks and crannies

Context example:

he explored every nook and cranny of science

Hypernyms ("nooks and crannies" is a kind of...):

detail; item; point (an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole)

 Context examples 

His was a fluid organism, swiftly adjustable, capable of flowing into and filling all sorts of nooks and crannies.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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)

About life and the books he knew more than they, and he wondered into what nooks and crannies they had cast aside their educations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)