Naves is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NAVES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• NAVE, the main body of a church
• the central part of a church building, intended to accommodate most of the congregation. In traditional Western churches it is rectangular, separated from the chancel by a step or rail, and from adjacent aisles by pillars.
• the hub of a wheel.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the main part of a church

Words related to NAVES

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Words that contain NAVES

knaves13 beknaves17 knaveship21 knaveships22

How to use NAVES in a sentence

• In engines with outside cylinders the axles are made straight-the crank pins being inserted in the naves of the wheels.
• But a point which remains to be explained is that the walls of the crypt are parallel to the line of the new chancel and not to the line of the old or new naves.
• Six hundred and fifty thousand dollars was the cost of the building, which was shaped like a Greek cross, of glass and iron, with a graceful dome, arched naves, and broad aisles.
• It was like a huge greenhouse in shape, nearly one thousand feet long and ninety feet high, with fountains playing in the naves and a great elm-tree in full leaf under the roof.
• Four rows of Corinthian columns, surmounted with arcades, divide the church into five naves, and form a forest.
• It is a building of the 12th century in the Romanesque style of Limousin, with three narrow naves of almost equal height.
• Then came the night when the straw bedding blazed, and fire poured through the long naves, rising to the roof.
• The burning timbers fell in with a noise like thunder and the lofty arches of the naves crumbled beneath the shock of these giant trees when moved by six hundred men together.
• This is the first example of this treatment, which was so happily followed in the naves of Winchester and Canterbury, in an English cathedral.
• The naves of English cathedrals are too apt to look like splendid museums rather than places of worship, and this is peculiarly the case with the nave at York.
• He strolled through the naves, attracting the attention of the devotees, who stopped in their prayers to watch him.
• He delighted in walking through the naves and behind the high altar, the darkest and most silent spot in the whole church.
• During High Mass and the choir in the evening he walked about the naves to check any irreverence on the part of the congregation or any inattention on that of the staff.
• If the wind or the hail break some of our glass in the naves, we can still lay our hands on some of the stores left by the Obreros of former days.
• It consists of a basilica divided into three naves by twenty-four columns of Greek marble with Romano-Byzantine capitals.
• O Maruts, O heroes, come quickly hither, like winged hawks, on your chariot with strong horses, of strong shape, with strong naves, to enjoy our libations.
• You find, usually, only whitewashed naves, walls destitute of painting or bas-relief, and rows of oaken benches well-polished and shining.
• It is built of hewn stone, and has three naves, and its main chapel, and choir, with high and low seats.

Similar words containing NAVE without suffix s

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