Synonyms for recess
rɪˈsɛs, ˈri sɛsre·cess

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1. recessadjective

   Remote, distant (in time or place).

   Thomas Salusbury: Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: I should think it best in the subsequent discourses to begin to examine whether the Earth be esteemed immoveable, as it hath been till now believed by most men, or else moveable, as some ancient Philosophers held, and others of not very recesse times were of opinion;

   Synonyms:
   pause, vacation, break, day off

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1. recess

   Synonyms:
   cavity, nook, withdrawal, retirement, retreat, seclusion, privacy, vacation, holiday

   Antonyms:
   promontory, protrusion, projection, publicity, worktime

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1. deferral, recessnoun

   a state of abeyance or suspended business

   Synonyms:
   recess, corner, deferral, inlet, deferment, niche, recession, postponement, break, respite, time out

2. recess, recession, niche, cornernoun

   a small concavity

   Synonyms:
   nook, recessional, quoin, deferral, respite, corner, receding, recess, ceding back, break, time out, recession, ecological niche, inlet, street corner, niche, box, turning point

3. inlet, recessnoun

   an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)

   Synonyms:
   recess, corner, deferral, inlet, recession, niche, intake, break, respite, time out

4. recess, nichenoun

   an enclosure that is set back or indented

   Synonyms:
   recess, corner, ecological niche, deferral, inlet, recession, niche, break, respite, time out

5. respite, recess, break, time outverb

   a pause from doing something (as work)

   "we took a 10-minute break"; "he took time out to recuperate"

   Synonyms:
   prison-breaking, rest period, deferral, rest, recession, jailbreak, respite, relief, corner, interruption, rift, intermission, severance, niche, falling out, prisonbreak, suspension, recess, breakout, faulting, break of serve, inlet, geological fault, gap, break, good luck, breaking, disruption, reprieve, open frame, gaolbreak, abatement, hiatus, breach, happy chance, fault, pause, shift, fracture, time out, breakage, rupture

6. recessverb

   put into a recess

   "recess lights"

   Synonyms:
   break up, adjourn

7. recessverb

   make a recess in

   "recess the piece of wood"

   Synonyms:
   break up, adjourn

8. adjourn, recess, break upverb

   close at the end of a session

   "The court adjourned"

   Synonyms:
   fragmentise, fragmentize, decompose, collapse, interrupt, crash, retire, split up, pick, dismantle, break up, recess, part, crock up, sever, cut off, fragment, split, disperse, separate, disrupt, dissolve, crack, disassemble, break apart, calve, dissipate, scatter, break down, resolve, take apart, dispel, adjourn, break, crack up, withdraw

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1. • Abeyance
   • Body Of Water
   • Indent
   • Put
   • Sea

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1. recessnoun

   Synonyms:
   retreat, nook, corner, niche, place of retirement

2. recessnoun

   Synonyms:
   intermission, respite, remission of labor, suspension of business

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1. recessnoun

   Synonyms:
   retreat, withdrawal, retirement, intermission, alcove, niche, nook, retreat, seclusion, privacy

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1. List of paraphrases for "recess":

   break, holiday, playtime, suspension, adjournment, pause, vacation, 'clock, cavity, recreation, niche

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1. Malyaiya White:

   I was actually at recess, I was by the gate of the shooting, and my teacher told me her dad got shot.

2. New York:

   The C.D.C. has been clear that everyone can unmask outside unless they’re in close contact with each other, and I believe that schools should be doing this for recess. And I believe we need to give parents and teachers a road map to what it takes to start undoing the mitigations. It was clear that vaccines for teachers helped us reopen schools. Maybe it’s vaccines for kids helping us get to unmasking of teachers and kids in schools.

3. Senate Budget:

   We have work to do, everybody is coming back from the August recess. It's our chance to square off, see one another eyeball-to-eyeball but try to work out our differences. But there are clearly differences.

4. Jon Stewart:

   All cowards. All of them, now they say,' Well, this will get done. Maybe after we get back from our summer recess, maybe during the lame duck' — because they're on Senate time. Do you understand you live around here ? Senate time is ridiculous. These mother *** ers live to 200. They're tortoises. They live forever and they never lose their jobs and they never lose their benefits and they never lose all those things. Well, they're not on Senate time. They're on human time. Cancer time.

5. Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett:

   No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.