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nave
/neɪv/
noun 4name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
central, round, western
VERB + NAVE
crossed, stream
NAVE + NOUN
aisles, chaps, church, hill, transept
PREP.
down, down, from, in, into
ADV.
slowly
Definitions
noun
1
The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
2
The ground-level middle cavity of a barn.
noun
1
A hub of a wheel.
'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods, In general synod take away her power; Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven[…]
2
The navel.
Till he faced the slave; / Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fix'd his head upon our battlements
name
1
A surname.
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Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpl
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'Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune! All you gods, In general synod take away her power; Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven[…]
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Till he faced the slave; / Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fix'd his head upon our battlements
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The organist played Messiaen, and notes of all colors and aromas rained down upon the rapt audience in the nave of the church.
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The nave, transept and aisles of the church have marble floors.
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The nave is the central part of the church.
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