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cove

noun
🔊/kəʊv/
🔊/kəʊv/
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  1. a small bay小海湾
     (= an area of sea that is partly surrounded by land)
    • a secluded cove僻静的小海湾
    Topics Geographyc1
  2. (British English, old-fashioned, informal) a man家伙；汉子；小子
    3. Word Originsense 1 Old English cofa ‘chamber, cave’, of Germanic origin; related to German Koben ‘pigsty, pen’. The current sense dates from the late 16th cent.sense 2 mid 16th cent.: perhaps from Romany kova ‘thing or person’.