cavern — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A large cave.

2. An underground chamber.

   Esempi

   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.

3. A large, dark place or space.

   Esempi

   a dark cavern of a shop

Verbo

1. To form a cavern or deep depression in.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Sinonimi

   hollowcave

   Esempi

   catacombs caverning the hillsides

2. To put into a cavern.

   Uso

   • transitivo

Sostantivo

1. any large dark enclosed space

   Termini più generali

   enclosurenatural enclosure

   Esempi

   his eyes were dark caverns

2. a large cave or a large chamber in a cave

   Termini più generali

   cave

Verbo

1. hollow out as if making a cavern

   Sinonimi

   cavern out

   Termini più generali

   hollowhollow outcore out