cavern
substantivoverboatestado nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈkav.ən//
- Reino Unido//ˈkav.n̩//
- Estados Unidos//ˈkæv.ɚn//
- Estados Unidos//ˈkæv.ɹən//
A large cave.
substantivo
- 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
Etimologia
From Middle English caverne, borrowing from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (“hollow, cavity, cave”), from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).
verbo
- 1
To form a cavern or deep depression in.
catacombs caverning the hillsides
- 2
To put into a cavern.
Formas
- plural
- caverns
- pretérito
- caverned
- particípio passado
- caverned
- gerúndio
- caverning
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- caverns