Grotto
['grɒtəʊ] or ['ɡrɑto]
Definition
(n.) A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.
Typed by Eddie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Grot, cave, cavern.
Checker: Mitchell
Definition
n. a cave: a place of shade for pleasure—also Grot:—pl. Grott′os—n. Grott′o-work a grotto-like structure.
Checker: Olivier
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a grotto in your dreams, is a sign of incomplete and inconstant friendships. Change from comfortable and simple plenty will make showy poverty unbearable.
Typist: Maura
Examples
- We reached the grotto at about three in the afternoon, and proceeded at once to make the experiments. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They even have in it a grotto wherein twenty thousand children were slaughtered by Herod when he was seeking the life of the infant Saviour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When the Virgin fled from Herod's wrath, she hid in a grotto in Bethlehem, and the same is there to this day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The grotto was tricked out in the usual tasteless style observable in all the holy places of Palestine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You know the Grotto del Cane at Naples, Maurice, where a man can enter freely, but a dog dies? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I longed to see this grotto. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- 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.
- It is an imposture--this grotto stuff--but it is one that all men ought to thank the Catholics for. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I doubt if any man can stand in the Grotto of the Annunciation and people with the phantom images of his mind its too tangible walls of stone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The slaughter of the innocents in Bethlehem was done in a grotto; the Saviour was born in a grotto--both are shown to pilgrims yet. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- All under one roof, and all clean, spacious, comfortable grottoes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If they ever did, their grottoes are all gone, and I suppose we ought to wonder at the peculiar marvel of the preservation of these I speak of. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Checker: Vernon