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What does recess mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word recess? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (countable or uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.
  2. An inset, hole, space or opening.
  3. (US) A time of play, usually, on a playground.
  4. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
  5. (archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
  6. (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
  7. (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
  8. A secret or abstruse part.
  9. (botany) A sinus.
Verb
  1. To inset into something, or to recede.
  2. (intransitive) To take or declare a break.
  3. (transitive, informal) To appoint, with a recess appointment.
  4. To make a recess in.
Adjective
  1. (obsolete, rare) Remote, distant (in time or place).
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