cavern
SubstantivVerbin Dialogen belegt
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈkav.ən//
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈkav.n̩//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈkæv.ɚn//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈkæv.ɹən//
A large cave.
Substantiv
- 1
A large cave.
- 2
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.
- 3
A large, dark place or space.
a dark cavern of a shop
Herkunft
From Middle English caverne, borrowing from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (“hollow, cavity, cave”), from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).
Verb
- 1
To form a cavern or deep depression in.
catacombs caverning the hillsides
- 2
To put into a cavern.
Formen
- Plural
- caverns
- Präteritum
- caverned
- Partizip II
- caverned
- Partizip I
- caverning
- 3. Person Singular
- caverns