cavern
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of cavern
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A large cave.
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noun
- A large cave.
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An underground chamber.
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.”
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A large, dark place or space.
“a dark cavern of a shop”
verb
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(transitive)To form a cavern or deep depression in.
“catacombs caverning the hillsides”
- (transitive)To put into a cavern.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English caverne, borrowing from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (“hollow, cavity, cave”), from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).
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