nooks and crannies

1. 1.

   something remote

   “he explored every nook and cranny of science”

   Synonymsnook and cranny

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Questions about nooks and crannies

What does nooks and crannies mean?

nooks and crannies means "something remote".

What is another word for nooks and crannies?

Close synonyms include nook and cranny. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nooks and crannies a common word?

nooks and crannies is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.