recess

1. 1.

   put into a recess

   “recess lights”

   Broaderput
2. 2.

   make a recess in

   “recess the piece of wood”

   Broaderindent
3. 3.

   close at the end of a session

   “The court adjourned”

   Synonymsadjournbreak up

   Broaderend

Other forms of recess

plural

recesses·

past tense

recessed·

present participle

recessing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about recess

What does recess mean?

recess means "a state of abeyance or suspended business". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recess?

recess has 2 syllables: re-cess. The stress falls on "cess". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈsɛs/.

What is another word for recess?

Close synonyms include deferral, recession, niche, corner, inlet. 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 recess a common word?

recess is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with recess?

9 words rhyme with recess. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.