cavern

noun

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cav·ern | \ ˈka-vərn

also -vrən \

Definition of cavern

(Entry 1 of 2)

: cave especially : one of large or indefinite extent

cavern

verb

caverned; caverning; caverns

Definition of cavern (Entry 2 of 2)

transitive verb

1 : to place in or as if in a cavern

2 : to form a cavern of : hollow —used with out

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Synonyms for cavern

Synonyms: Noun

antre,
cave,
delve
[archaic],
grot,
grotto

Examples of cavern in a Sentence

Noun a cavern with beautiful stalactites

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Where Crump once saw a dark cave, the ride now has thunder and lightning effects in a mysterious cavern, one complete with not-so-creepy insects. — Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2021 Preparing a cavern for storing the hydrogen equivalent of two million barrels of oil could cost a company $25 million, says Andres Fernandez Oliva, a vice president at WSP, an environmental-engineering firm. — David Hodari, WSJ, 14 May 2021 Still, Infinity Train definitely falls into a miracle cavern of demographic impossibility. — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2021 The company has proposed spending $16 million to test hydrogen storage at a salt cavern near Lyon in eastern France, with plans to expand the site and use others in France and England. — David Hodari, WSJ, 14 May 2021 Off a balcony, and into an underground cavern full of candles and pipe organs. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 May 2021 Opening out of the earth, the enormous hollow cavern is connected by precarious natural bridges just begging to be photographed. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2021 Big waves explode into a coastal cavern known as Thunder Hole. — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021 Expectations are very high on Wall Street that the economy is in the midst of exploding out of the cavern created by the pandemic. — Joseph Pisani, Star Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb In the hunt, scientists have erected detectors in a South Dakota cavern a mile underground, at the bottom of Lake Baikal in Siberia, under a mountain in Japan, and on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 12 July 2018

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History and Etymology for cavern

Noun

Middle English caverne, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin caverna "hollow space, crevice, tree hole, cave," from cavus "hollow, sunken" + -erna, noun-forming suffix of uncertain origin — more at hole entry 1

Verb

derivative of cavern entry 1

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