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cavern

[ kav-ern ]

noun

  1. a cave, especially one that is large and mostly underground.
  2. Pathology. a cavity that is produced by disease, especially one produced in the lungs by tuberculosis.


verb (used with object)

  1. to enclose in or as if in a cavern.
  2. to hollow out to form a cavern.

cavern

/ ˈ°ì汹ə²Ô /

noun

  1. a cave, esp when large and formed by underground water, or a large chamber in a cave
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to shut in or as if in a cavern
  2. to hollow out
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cavern

/ °ìă±¹â€²É™°ù²Ô /

  1. A large cave.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cavern1

1325–75; Middle English caverne < Latin caverna, equivalent to cav ( us ) hollow + -erna, as in cisterna cistern
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cavern1

C14: from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna, from cavus hollow; see cave 1
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Large underground salt caverns are ideal - but the nearest potential sites are in East Yorkshire and Cheshire.

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"Instead of a big, sheer pristine box of ice, you can see caverns under the edges," Prof Meijers says.

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If we were to squeeze through small cracks in his mind’s cavern walls or crawl down its miniaturized hallways toward Erickson's nerve center, we might find ourselves in a room with a broken printer.

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Galvanized by sound in yawning subterranean caverns, she made her calling “deep listening†as a way to overcome the world’s ever-increasing surface noise.

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He soon grew to love the cavern system, which dates back 350 million years, and by the age of seven he had explored it more than 100 times.

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