Definition of cavern
:cave;
especially
:one of large or indefinite extent
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a cavern with beautiful stalactites
Recent Examples of cavern from the Web
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Top the warm galette with really good vanilla bean ice cream, allowing it to melt into small streams that work their way between the caverns of filling.
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The waste would go into barrels and the barrels would go into the caverns, where the salt would eventually entomb them.
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The waste would go into barrels and the barrels would go into the caverns, where the salt would eventually entomb them.
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Warsaw Caves: This system of seven caverns lies just north of Peterborough.
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The waste would go into barrels and the barrels would go into the caverns, where the salt would eventually entomb them.
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His Arabian territories stretched beyond the holy cities of Islam to the mountains of Yemen and the Persian Gulf, where there were rumoured to lie vast caverns of the sticky black liquid soon to replace coal as the world’s chief source of power.
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The last time the Twins swept the Indians in a three-game set in Cleveland, the Indians played in an oft-empty cavern known as Municipal Stadium.
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From there, visitors float directly into the caverns.
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Origin and Etymology of cavern
Middle English caverne, from Medieval French, from Latin caverna, from cavus
Definition of cavern
First Known Use of cavern
circa 1630
CAVERN Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of cavern for Students
:a cave often of large or unknown size
Medical Dictionary
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medical Definition of cavern
:a cavity (as in the lung) caused by disease
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