covenoun [ C ]
uk/kəʊv/us/koʊv/cove noun [ C ] (COAST)
a curved part of a coast that partly surrounds an area of water
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bay noun
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Bays & gulfs
- arm
- basin
- bay
- channel
- gulf
- inlet
- lagoon
- narrows
- sea coast
- sound
- strait
- the Persian Gulf
cove noun [ C ] (MAN)
UK old-fashioned a man:
He's an odd-looking cove.
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Kinds of men
- a bit of rough idiom
- a man's man idiom
- adult
- alpha male
- beta male
- fop
- gaffer
- gay
- geezer
- gent
- laddie
- ladies' man
- mac
- male chauvinist
- MCP
- sirrah
- sister under the skin idiom
- spiv
- sugar daddy
- suit
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