Definition of Cavern

1. Noun. Any large dark enclosed space. "His eyes were dark caverns"

Generic synonyms: Enclosure, Natural Enclosure

2. Verb. Hollow out as if making a cavern.
Exact synonyms: Cavern Out
Generic synonyms: Core Out, Hollow, Hollow Out

3. Noun. A large cave or a large chamber in a cave.
Specialized synonyms: Carlsbad Caverns
Generic synonyms: Cave
Derivative terms: Cavernous

Definition of Cavern

1. n. A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

Definition of Cavern

1. Noun. a large cave ¹

2. Noun. an underground chamber ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cavern

1. to hollow out [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Cavern

1. An anatomical cavity with many interconnecting chambers. Synonym: caverna. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavern

cavel
caveless
cavelike
cavels
caveman
cavemanlike
cavemen
cavemouth
cavemouths
cavendishes
caveolae
caveolar
caveolin
caver
cavern (current term)
cavern out
caverna
caverned
cavernicolous
caverniloquy
caverning
cavernlike
cavernosal
cavernoscope
cavernoscopy

Literary usage of Cavern

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1877)
"The Superintendents have had the pleasure, as in former years, of conducting a large number of persons into the cavern, of explaining to them on the spot ..."

2. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1890)
"Here we turn to the right and soon diverge from the road to the right (sign-post) to visit Kent's cavern (PI. E, 2; open 10-5; 1-3 pers. is. ..."

3. The New-York Reader (1815)
"Description of « cavern in Derbyshire England, called the Peak's Hole. HAVING procured the proper guide, I went to see the famous Peak's hole. ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1862)
"THE НАШ) OF MAK Ш THE KIRKDALE cavern. ВY JOHN TAYLOR, AUTHOR OF "THE GREAT PYRAMID WHY WAS IT BUILT?" ETC. ETC. " In all such pretences to antiquity, ..."

5. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"According to Mr. Whitby's report, they were found in a cavern of the solid ... This cavern is about seventy feet below the ..."

6. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"The cavern consists of a series of chambers and passages, which resolve themselves into two main divisions, extending from nearly north to south in parallel ..."

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