Definitions for recess

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recess re·cess

Spelling: [ri-ses, ree-ses]

IPA: /rɪˈsɛs, ˈri sɛs/

Recess is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in recess (ceerss).

Definitions for recess

noun

1. temporary withdrawal or cessation from the usual work or activity.
2. a period of such withdrawal.
3. a receding part or space, as a bay or alcove in a room.
4. an indentation in a line or extent of coast, hills, forest, etc.
5. recesses, a secluded or inner area or part:

verb (used with object)

1. to place or set in a recess.
2. to set or form as or like a recess; make a recess or recesses in:
3. to suspend or defer for a recess:

verb (used without object)

1. to take a recess.

Origin of recess

1510-20; Latin recessus a withdrawal, receding part, equivalent to recēd(ere) to recede¹ + -tus suffix of v. action, with dt > ss

Examples for recess

Then she went with Rico to school and back again, and in recess they were also together.

On either side a recess in the wall had been fitted up as a couch.

First, the only “recess” that counted was the one that started at the end of a Senate session.

Congress returns from recess next week and has two weeks of session before adjourning again until after the election.

At every recess hour the forces gathered for the exciting sport.

I only hope he's not in that recess or deep doorway now, if it leads into your mountain.

With Congress in recess, it seems she had to get back in the spotlight any way she could.

No, recess appointments are a vital safety-catch to allow government to function.

The Senate had, in fact, been in pro forma session when Obama issued his fiat that the body was in recess.

It was recess and the campus was overflowing with boys and girls, but Pat was alone.