Cavern
['kæv(ə)n] or ['kævɚn]
Definition
(noun.) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave.
(noun.) any large dark enclosed space; 'his eyes were dark caverns'.
(verb.) hollow out as if making a cavern.
Typist: Vern--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Grotto, cave, den.
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Definition
n. a deep hollow place in the earth.—v.t. to put in a cavern: to hollow out in the form of a cavern.—adjs. Cav′erned full of caverns: dwelling in a cavern; Cav′ernous hollow: full of caverns.—adv. Cav′ernously.—adj. Caver′nūlous full of little cavities.
Editor: Mamie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing a cavern yawning in the weird moonlight before you, many perplexities will assail you, and doubtful advancement because of adversaries. Work and health is threatened. To be in a cave foreshadows change. You will probably be estranged from those who are very dear to you. For a young woman to walk in a cave with her lover or friend, denotes she will fall in love with a villain and will suffer the loss of true friends.
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Examples
- For several ages no woman has been allowed to enter the cavern where that important hole is. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A hut rarely receives her; the hollow tree and chill cavern are her home. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Bowing with the air of one accustomed to public praise, he stole to the cavern and ordered Hagar to come forth with a commanding, What ho, minion! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We went to the Milk Grotto, of course--a cavern where Mary hid herself for a while before the flight into Egypt. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At length we arrived at a large, desert, dark cavern, which the Lazzeroni assured us was the Sibyl's Cave. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- After a succession of these, which our resolution alone permitted us to surmount, we arrived at a wide cavern with an arched dome-like roof. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A spring trickles out of the rock in the gloomy recesses of the cavern, and we were thirsty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is nothing but a dismal cavern, roughly hewn in the living rock of the Hill of Calvary. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Once within, you find yourself in an arched cavern about one hundred and sixty feet long, one hundred and twenty wide, and about seventy high. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I inhabit a den, Miss--a cavern, where you would not put your dainty nose. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Nevertheless, I will try it, said my companion; it may lead to the real cavern. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Think of mass and a sermon away down in those tangled caverns under ground! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Other rocks, like limestone, are so readily soluble in water that from the small pores and cavities eaten out by the water, there may develop in long centuries, caves and caverns (Fig. 30). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Our houses would become caverns, and we should go in rags because we cared for nobody. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Their only available light for going deeply into the caverns would be torches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They dispossessed _Homo Neanderthalensis_ from his caverns and his stone quarries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Rolling and crashing on as if it echoed through a thousand caverns where the devils were hiding from it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He who should have been our shield against all harm, hath kept us shut within the noisome caverns of his donjon-keep for lo these thirty years. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Hanging lights made emerald caverns in the depths of foliage, and whitened the spray of a fountain falling among lilies. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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