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a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface
a cavern with beautiful stalactites
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Recent Examples of caverns
In the province of Salerno in southern Italy, the Grotte dell’Angelo is a karst system featuring a unique network of caverns and impressive stalactites hanging from the vaults and stalagmites rising from the floor.
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Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
What fantastic fantasies will lure risk-seeking treasure hunters to breach the massive walls of iron thorns surrounding mysterious radioactive caverns buried deep in the deserts?
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
With a cool, constant temperature of 54 degrees, the caverns are a perfect year-round adventure.
—Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
Beautiful caverns adorned with foliage and flowers are frequently sandwiched between dungeons filled with cages and cold steel.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Their nests are typically located in cliff-side caverns and look more like a vague pile of large sticks, photos show.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Riley Moss was the sociable hermit in the caverns of Iowa’s practice facility.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
Vanuatu’s dive options range from coral reef and dramatic caverns to legendary World War II ship and plane wrecks like Million Dollar Point and the SS President Coolidge, a troopship sunk by mines in 1942 that can be explored with Aore Adventures in Espiritu Santo.
—Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
Divers and snorkelers can explore the geological wonder’s caverns and stalactites that reach up to 40 feet.
—Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
What fantastic fantasies will lure risk-seeking treasure hunters to breach the massive walls of iron thorns surrounding mysterious radioactive caverns buried deep in the deserts?
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
With a cool, constant temperature of 54 degrees, the caverns are a perfect year-round adventure.
—Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
Beautiful caverns adorned with foliage and flowers are frequently sandwiched between dungeons filled with cages and cold steel.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Their nests are typically located in cliff-side caverns and look more like a vague pile of large sticks, photos show.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Riley Moss was the sociable hermit in the caverns of Iowa’s practice facility.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
Vanuatu’s dive options range from coral reef and dramatic caverns to legendary World War II ship and plane wrecks like Million Dollar Point and the SS President Coolidge, a troopship sunk by mines in 1942 that can be explored with Aore Adventures in Espiritu Santo.
—Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
Divers and snorkelers can explore the geological wonder’s caverns and stalactites that reach up to 40 feet.
—Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caverns
Noun
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Just one of those caves, known as the Tour Cave, is open to the public.—
Matt Alderton,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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The caves are easily the Meramec Valley’s biggest draw, but in the fall, half of the appeal is found above the surface of the Earth, when Missouri’s maples, ashes, hickories, and oaks start to change colors.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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To keep things fresh, producers have ventured into hitherto uncharted baking grottoes.—
Ruby Tandoh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Caverns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caverns. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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