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Cavern

//ˈkav.ən// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A large cave.
  2. 2
    a large cave or a large chamber in a cave wordnet
  3. 3
    An underground chamber.

    "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea."

  4. 4
    any large dark enclosed space wordnet
  5. 5
    A large, dark place or space.

    "a dark cavern of a shop"

Verb
  1. 1
    To form a cavern or deep depression in. transitive

    "catacombs caverning the hillsides"

  2. 2
    hollow out as if making a cavern wordnet
  3. 3
    To put into a cavern. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English caverne, borrowing from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (“hollow, cavity, cave”), from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English caverne, borrowing from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (“hollow, cavity, cave”), from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).

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