as in cave
a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface
at the heart of the shrine is a small rocky grotto into which pilgrims can descend
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Recent Examples of grotto
There’s also a Whirlpool, Turkish baths, a salt grotto, cryotherapy chambers, and saunas.
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Tomeka Jones, Travel + Leisure, 3 Aug. 2025
Several Aruban grottoes and rock-shelters yielded inscriptions and pictographs to the explorer, who considers their style as related to the pictography of the Orinoco and Apure countries.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 July 2025
Emerald Cave, a small grotto on the Colorado River, is accessible by kayak, canoe or paddleboard.
—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 16 July 2025
Photo : Will Myers The backyard oasis features a resort-style pool with a waterfall, slide, spa, and grotto.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2025
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Tomeka Jones, Travel + Leisure, 3 Aug. 2025
Several Aruban grottoes and rock-shelters yielded inscriptions and pictographs to the explorer, who considers their style as related to the pictography of the Orinoco and Apure countries.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 July 2025
Emerald Cave, a small grotto on the Colorado River, is accessible by kayak, canoe or paddleboard.
—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 16 July 2025
Photo : Will Myers The backyard oasis features a resort-style pool with a waterfall, slide, spa, and grotto.
—Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grotto
Noun
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Led by anthropologist Lee Berger, PhD, a director and research professor at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University) in South Africa, the researchers recently published their new findings on the Rising Star cave system.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
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Fuhrich wasn’t the only hero of the caves, historian Johannes Mattes explains.—
Danny Robb,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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“Grotto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grotto. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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