Definition of CAVERN

Examples of cavern in a Sentence

Noun

a cavern with beautiful stalactites

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

These inch-long, electric blue fish have been stranded in a submerged limestone cavern in the Nevadan desert since the last Ice Age. — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, "Brutal beetles kept world’s rarest fish from breeding—until now," 1 Mar. 2019 Note that part of the caverns don’t comply with accessibility regulations of the Americans With Disabilities Act. — Jay Jones, latimes.com, "Nevada's Great Basin National Park unfurls rugged vistas in the daytime, expansive sky at night," 31 May 2018 PAW Patrol Live — Based off of the popular animated series of the same name, in this live-action production PAW Patrol discovers a secret treasure map and rescues Cap’n Turbot from a mysterious cavern. — Anchorage Daily News, "Say aloha to some ono food and reggae this week," 13 June 2019 Carved by monks on pilgrimage, these caverns are home to some of the most important Buddhist art and manuscripts in the world. — National Geographic, "China High School Expedition," 12 June 2019 The boys and their coach, members of the Moo Paa (Wild Boar) Academy football club, are believed to be trapped in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave, a 6-8 km (4-5 mi) long cavern that is comprised of large chambers connected by narrower passageways. — Eli Meixler, Time, "Thai Divers Continue the Search For 12 Boys and Their Coach Trapped in a Flooded Cave. Here’s What to Know," 26 June 2018 Four other boys and their 25-year-old coach await their turn to be guided on Tuesday through the winding passages and caverns of the Tham Luang cave, where they have been trapped since June 23. — Jake Maxwell Watts, WSJ, "Divers Rescue Four More Boys From Thai Cave, Bringing Total to Eight," 9 July 2018 In Thwaites’ case, that radar uncovered a gigantic cavern between the glacier itself and the bedrock below it. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "NASA Found a Giant Underground Cavern in Antarctica Almost the Size of Manhattan," 31 Jan. 2019 Kelly Macdonald as Agnes, who discovers she’s a puzzle prodigy Photo: Sony Pictures Classics He has been written sketchily, an inventor of great wealth who lives alone in a beautiful cavern of a Manhattan apartment. — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, "‘Puzzle’ Review: Less Than the Sum of Its Pieces," 25 July 2018

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, "Scientists Track Neutrinos Through Ice to Their Source in the Cosmos," 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