🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

accogliente

Pronunciation / Transliteration: accogliente

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
snug/snʌɡ/
adjectivenounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La stanza era calda e accogliente."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Comfortable, warm, and cozy; well protected from the weather or cold.

    "We felt nice and snug by the fireside."
  2. 2

    Fitting closely, sometimes tightly.

    "The jacket is a nice snug fit."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English (in the sense 'neat, trim'): probably of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian and dialect Swedish snugge 'to crouch, nestle'.

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