See Also: cavern(medicine)
cavern(dictionary)
cavern(dictionary)

cavern (iou)



cavern noun & verb. LME.
[Old & mod. French caverne or Latin caverna, from cavus hollow: cf. CAVE noun1.]
A. noun. An underground hollow, a (vast) cave; a dark cavity. LME.
Coleridge Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man. L. P. Hartley Her eye sockets were caverns which revealed the skull.
b. verb trans.
Enclose (as) in a cavern. M17.
Hollow out into a cavern or caverns. M19.
caverned adjective (a) having caverns; hollowed out into caverns; (b) enclosed in a cavern: E18.