Recess Synonyms & Definitions

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• RecessDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
2. (n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
3. (n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
4. (n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
5. (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
6. (n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
7. (n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
8. (v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
9. (n.) A sinus.

• RecessingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recess

• RecessionalDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal.