cove

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small sheltered bay or inlet in a coastline

   They anchored the boat in a quiet cove for the night.

Simplified etymology

Cove, an old-fashioned term for a person recorded from the mid-16th century, comes from Romani kova ‘thing, person’.

From Old English 'cofa' ('chamber, cave, recess'), from Proto-Germanic '*kubon-'. The coastal sense 'sheltered inlet' developed in the 16th century.

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