discovert

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word discovert. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word discovert, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say discovert in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word discovert you have here. The definition of the word discovert will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofdiscovert, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

Old French descovert, past participle of descovrir (to uncover).

Noun

discovert (plural discoverts)

  1. (obsolete) An uncovered place or part.

Derived terms

Adjective

discovert (not comparable)

  1. (law, obsolete) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for discovert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)