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Definition of Cavern
1. Verb. Hollow out as if making a cavern.
2. Noun. Any large dark enclosed space. "His eyes were dark caverns"
3. Noun. A large cave or a large chamber in a cave.
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
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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