Recess
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Recess
Noun
- A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
"Put a generous recess behind the handle for finger space."
- A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
- The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
- A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place. A place of retirement, retreat, or seclusion. An obscure, remote, or secret situation.
"the difficulties and recesses of science"
- A place of retirement, retreat, or seclusion.
Verb
- To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back. To make a recess (noun noun sense 1 and noun sense 1.1) in (something).
"to recess a wall"
- To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
- To make a recess (noun noun sense 1 and noun sense 1.1) in (something).
"to recess a wall"
- To make a recess (noun noun sense 1 and noun sense 1.1) in (something).
"to recess a wall"
- Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.
"That gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture."
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