Noun: ark
Sample Sentences
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Then said he, "Your child is at home in the inner bedroom in a new cradle behind the ark." [1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 228:]
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In the midrash about Noah it says that Noah had a stone which, when held up in the darkness of the ark, would change color when the sun was shining outside. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:]
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the Ark of Bukhara
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Like her I go; I cannot stay;
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I leave this mortal ark behind,
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A weight of nerves without a mind,
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And leave the cliffs, and haste away […] [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:]
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Some seventy or seventy-five arks were permanently located on McLeod's Lake and between 110 and 125 people lived in them. [1990, Lou Sullivan, chapter 7, in From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, page 76:]
Nouns inflected like ark
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English arke, from Old English earc, ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”), from arceō (“to enclose”). See: Middle English Nouns '
arke', Old English Nouns '
earc', Latin Nouns '
arca'.