The volcano last erupted 25 years ago.
after months of tension the roommates' living situation was a volcano
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Axial Seamount is one of countless volcanoes that are underwater.—Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025 The flight from Paris to the island of Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean, takes 11 hours, skirting the smoldering crater of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano before landing just shy of the water.—Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2025 But some microorganisms, known as extremophiles, show impressive resilience in inhospitable environments, whether that's the vacuum of space, hydrothermal vents on the slopes of undersea volcanoes, or even NASA clean rooms.—Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 18 May 2025 The massive undersea volcano reaches more than 3,600 feet above the seabed is located 300 miles offshore.—Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 17 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for volcano
Word History
Etymology
Italian or Spanish; Italian vulcano, from Spanish volcán, ultimately from Latin Volcanus Vulcan
: a vent in the earth's crust from which melted or hot rock and steam come out
also: a hill or mountain composed entirely or in part of the material thrown out
Etymology
from Italian or Spanish; Italian vulcano "volcano," from Spanish vulcán, from Latin Volcanus, Vulcanus "Vulcan (Roman god of fire)"
Word Origin
The ancient Greeks and Romans had many gods and goddesses. Each of these deities was in charge of a special kind of work or an aspect of nature. Many of the happenings in nature were explained in myth as the actions of one or more of these gods or goddesses. The Roman god of fire was known as Vulcanus in Latin (Vulcan in English). He was thought to live inside Mount Etna, a volcano on the island of Sicily. Vulcan was a giant who worked as a blacksmith, forging the thunderbolts for Jupiter, king of the gods. The smoke and occasional fiery rocks and lava that came from Mount Etna were thought to be from Vulcan's forge. That is how his name came to be applied to a mountain that sometimes spews forth fire and smoke.
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